The Legacy of HHMI’s Board Chairs For more than four decades, HHMI’s board chairs have played a central role in guiding the Institute’s growth and impact. Their leadership and contributions have ...

Come explore the invisible world of biology through stunning visuals created by scientists and photographers from around the world.

This video lets you peek inside the human brain, highlighting the neuronal fibers that enable communication across the brain. This communication is vital to all brain functions, including learning, ...

What am I looking at? This is an electron microscopy image of a mouse neural stem cell transforming into a neuron. The large blue half-dome in the center is the neuron cell body (1). The green ...

The faceoff between these two fiery-looking groups of chromosomes represents a key part of cell division – the process that cells undergo when they divide to make more cells. These images show a stage ...

MRSA (pronounced MUR-suh), seen here as purple spheres, is the abbreviation for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, an antibiotic -resistant bacterium that can cause a severe infection in ...

The blue spiral in the center of this field of green and white cells looks as if it might be a seashell. However, it is actually the cochlea of a newborn mouse. The cochlea is an organ in the inner ...

These are cells derived from monkey kidney tissue, growing in culture. They were filmed at a very slow frame rate overnight, and you are seeing the video played back here at a higher speed to show the ...

Imagine going to the dentist with this set of teeth! These are teeth located on a snail’s “tongue,” or radula, also called a rasper, which is constantly licking the ground to scrape up and transport ...

Beautiful Biology, an initiative of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and its Janelia Research Campus, aims to cultivate interest and curiosity in the life sciences through this portal of stunning ...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2). These have become household terms since the start of the global COVID-19 ...

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