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HHMI News: New Blood Test for Down Syndrome
Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have developed a new prenatal blood test that accurately detected Down syndrome and two other serious chromosomal defects in a small study of 18 pregnant women. If confirmed in larger trials, ...

Bioinformatics Specialist I ? Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...
Bioinformatics Specialist I ? Howard Hughes Medical Institute ? Durham, NC. Posted on November 1st, 2008 under HTML, JSP, Javascript, Jobs, Other, PHP, XML • Tags: career, employment, job, specialist, web, Web Designer, Web Developer. ...

UCSF Today - Green Selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...
Ari Green, assistant professor in the Department of Neurology, was selected as one of 19 early career physician-scientists whose work bridges the gap between basic research and clinical medicine.

HHMI News: HHMI Selects 56 of the Nation's Top Scientists
Fifty-six of the nation's most creative biomedical scientists are being given the opportunity to tackle their most ambitious, risky research plans, as they become the newest class of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators. ...

Behavior: Research from University of California, Howard Hughes ...
Investigators publish new data in the report 'Neural substrate of modified and unmodified pathways for learning in monkey vestibuloocular reflex.' "To understand how the brain learns, we need to identify the full neural circuit for a ...

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An HIV Enzyme with Acrobatic Flair November 13, 2008 New images from HHMI scientists show the stunning dynamics of HIV reverse transcriptase zooming around on the very DNA it is building. More MicroRNA "Safety Switch" Prevents Spread of ...

Researchers Discover Key Gene for Making Motor Neurons
Researchers have revealed an important step in the process that guides the early development of neurons as they establish precise connections between the spinal cord and muscles.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Associate Investment Counsel for ...
At the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), creativity and excellence are. fundamental to our success. As one of the world's largest philanthropies, HHMI plays a. leading role in advancing biomedical research and science education in ...

HHMI News: Roger Tsien Wins 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced this morning that the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Roger Y. Tsien, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), ...

University of California - UC Newsroom | Robert Tjian to head ...
BERKELEY -- University of California, Berkeley, molecular biologist Robert Tjian is the newly elected president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), one of the world's largest private funders of biomedical research. ...