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By Studying Fruit Flies, Rachel Wilson Is Changing How We Understand the Brain

Research on navigation in Drosophila melanogaster reveals fundamental principles about how nervous systems operate

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Persistence Brought This First-Generation Student to a Career in Neuroscience

PhD graduate Dionnet Bhatti Mazo explores how the brain interprets the world

6 min read
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2025 Warren Alpert Prize Honors Scientists Whose Discoveries Culminated in Novel HIV Treatment

Twice-a-year injection with lenacapavir can prevent HIV infection

5 min read
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The Neuroscience of Cancer

Scientists are making surprising discoveries about the connections between cancer and the nervous system

11 min read
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Making Sense of Interoception

How we perceive what’s happening inside our bodies and what that means for our health

9 min read
An illustrated outline of the human body with different organs lighting up with red dots.

2024 Warren Alpert Prize Honors Four Pioneers in CAR T-Cell Therapy

Lab-made immune cells offer a lifeline for patients with blood cancers

5 min read
Computer generated image of two CAR-T cells targeting one cancer cell

2023 Warren Alpert Prize Honors Pioneer in Computational Biology

2023 Warren Alpert Prize Honors Pioneer in Computational Biology

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New Leader Charts Course for Neurobiology

New chair David Ginty shares his plans for moving the neurobiology department into the future

11 min read
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Sleep Melds Memories

Researchers home in on how the sleeping brain consolidates memories

14 min read
The Lagoon Nebula photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2018

Honors for mRNA Vaccines

2022 Warren Alpert Prize Honors mRNA Research that Enabled the Design of COVID-19 Vaccines

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Workhorse Molecule at Center Stage

The Warren Alpert Foundation has awarded its 2021 prize to two scientists for RNA discoveries

10 min read
Award winners Joan Steitz and Lynne Maquat

Hunger Cues

Why does food smell so good when we’re hungry?

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