Biomedical Research

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator David R. Liu was awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for developing two gene-edit...

Our enjoyment of sweets can be traced to one subset of taste receptor cells – specialized sweet-sensing cells found in our taste buds – that initiate...

When neurons in the brain are firing, they need energy—and they need it fast. But how the brain communicates with blood vessels to provide that energy...

The Research HHMI Investigator David R. Liu and researchers at the Broad Institute and Jackson Laboratory developed prime editing treatments to direct...

The Research A team led by HHMI Investigator Vamsi Mootha and scientists from the Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital shows that a low-...