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Features

A Masterful Design

A Masterful Design

Updates to the Salk Institute’s iconic architecture ensure that great science and the original vision of the design live on.

Inside the Mind of Ted Waitt

Inside the Mind of Ted Waitt

Whether it’s vital funding, imaginative technology or the perspective of a successful CEO, new Board Chair Ted Waitt says adding a little magic in the right place enables great discoveries.

Surviving Superbugs

Surviving Superbugs

Ending the arms race with infectious diseases could mean learning to live with them.

From the President

President’s Letter

Precision Interception

Discoveries

Salk scientists adapt computer program to gauge eye spasm severity

Heart disease, leukemia linked to dysfunction in nucleus

“Princess Leia” brainwaves help sleeping brain store memories

Gene-editing technology partially restores vision in blind animals

Immune receptors amplify “invader” signals by turning into mini-machines

Collaboration uncovers how molecular machines assemble

Small but mighty: tiny proteins with big roles in biology

The Goldilocks effect in aging research

Feed a cold, starve a fever?

Turning back time: Salk scientists reverse signs of aging

Building a better brain

Salk scientists crack the structure of HIV machinery

Worms have teenage ambivalence, too

Curb your immune enthusiasm

Findings highlight promise of chimeric organisms for science and medicine

Spotlight

Salk’s Research Center on Aging receives additional $3 million award from Glenn Foundation for Medical Research

Salk garners EDC award

V Foundation For Cancer Research

Yesterday’s Scholars, Today’s Science Superstars

Salk President Coauthors New York Times Bestseller On Slowing Human Aging

Tony Hunter awarded inaugural Sjöberg Prize for cancer breakthrough

Eyewitnesses And Microbiomes: Salk Faculty Inspire At Tedxsandiego

Helmsley Charitable Trust Awards $25 Million Grant

Award-winning faculty join Salk to advance RNA, plant, cancer research

Inaugural Melvin Cohn Award

National Academy Of Inventors Fellow

Brain Initiative Award

NIH Director’s Early Independence Award

Events

Salk’s “Rockstar”

Back To Basics On Glia

Symposium Named For Ellen Potter

Blackburn Addresses President’s Club

It Pays To Pedal

Keeping Pace With Salkexcellerators