Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Oliver Otis Howard was a valiant union general, a member of the Freedmen’s Bureau, and the founder Howard University. Howard was born in Leeds, Maine, but he spent most of his childhood at a school in North Yarmouth, until he went to Bowdoin College and graduated in 1850. Four years later, he graduated from the U.S. military academy at West Point. Although he studied military tactics, he proceeded to become an assistant professor in mathematics at West Point. His military career started out with…

Hughes H-4 Hercules, commonly known as the “Flying Boat” or “spruce goose” was, and still is, the largest wooden aircraft ever designed and flown5. It holds the record for having the biggest wing with a span of 320 feet, which could cover an entire football field2. Henry Fraiser was the man who first proposed the idea of the enormous flying boat based on the demand for a transport plane to support the activities of the US military during World War 24. Frasier approached the famous aircraft…

science-can-tell-what-you-are-dreaming “People used to think that this region of the medulla was only involved in the paralysis of skeletal muscles during REM sleep,” explained lead author Yang Dan, a UC Berkeley professor of molecular and cell biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. “What we showed is that these neurons triggered all aspects of REM sleep, including muscle paralysis and the typical cortical activation that makes the brain look more awake than in non-REM…

This cover letter is in regard to the Macalester-Howard Hughes Medical Institute Minnesota Department of Health, Injury and Violence Prevention Unit (IVPU) Summer Research Position. This position excites me because it would help me connect my study in applied math and data science with my long-term interest in epidemiology. My qualifications for this position start with my passion in research about epidemiology. Living in a family of physicians, I became interested on epidemiology in my…

Herpes simplex virus infections is an huge global health problem and there’s no current vaccine for it. According to Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have created a genetic mutant lacking that protein that advantage of a protein found on the virus outer surface of and works against it. The result is an effective vaccine against herpes…

In a recent study, scientists from Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) were able to show that humans can discriminate more than 1 trillion olfactory stimuli thus, clarifying earlier misconceptions which claimed that humans could only approximately discriminate 10, 000 . To conduct this experiment, researchers used 128 odorous molecules to create scented mixtures that contained 10, 20 or 30 different components and then they asked 26 participants, out of whom 17…

Inhibition of cash crops and other plants immune system response has been linked to a bacterial infection. Researchers in the Department of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and the Carolina Centre for Genome Sciences at the University of North Carolina, and the Department of Biological Chemistry at John Innes Centre, have uncovered a correlation between bacterial protein, a molecule that performs…

similar to my grandfather’s condition, and the inflammation produced in her knee has been significantly reduced since then. According to her orthopedic surgeon, “the inflammation reduced is unheard of, and is a testament of what is to come in the medical industry.” It was viewed as a…

Artistotle/Plato (384BC-347BC): Artistotle was a Greek philosopher, born in 384BC died in 347BC. Through his work, the “Scala naturae” also called “the great chain of being”, Artistotle tried to analyze the relationship between all living things. “Scala naturae” is the earliest work of taxonomy in biology, which categorized species on Earth from the simplest to most complex. He also declared that species could not ever change over time. Nicholas Steno (1638-1686): Steno was a Danish scientist.…

Did you know that whenever you smell something, it triggers your senses, and the brain? There are five senses, and one is smell. The brain is a important organ in our body, it tells our body what to do, and what to not do. The person who studied the senses was Linda B. Buck, and the people who studied the brain was the Egyptians. Your senses let you know what is going on around you. The brain is the control center of the body. All information we have about prehistoric cultures comes from…