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Features

Frontiers in Regenerative Medicine

Frontiers in Regenerative Medicine

When Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte and his team at Salk made global news headlines last fall for developing a technique for growing...

Next Gen: Zachary Katz

Next Gen: Zachary Katz

Zachary Katz is a visual person: from insect-devouring plants to bustling cells, he strives to see what happens in nature. While growing up in Arizona and then Florida, Katz and his brother gathered...

An Interview with Salk President Elizabeth Blackburn

An Interview with Salk President Elizabeth Blackburn

When Jonas Salk announced the discovery of the polio vaccine in 1955, Elizabeth Blackburn was six years old and busy collecting...

President’s letter

We have tremendous possibilities in science right now, thanks to a convergence of a critical mass of deep knowledge with the emergence of powerful new technologies.

Welcome Letter

For those of you not yet acquainted with Salk’s new president, I’m pleased and honored to introduce Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn.

Discoveries

Targeting mutant proteins might be silver bullet for neurodegenerative diseases

Blocking Immune Cell Treats New Type of Age-Related Diabetes

Fighting Liver Fibrosis, the Wound that Never Heals

New Tie Between Cholesterol and Bone Density

How the Cell’s Power Station Survives Attacks

Molecular “Brake” Stifles Human Lung Cancer

Cellular damage control system helps plants tough it out

Scientists find key driver for treatment of lethal brain cancer

Here Comes The Sun: Cellular Sensor Helps Plants Find Light

Making serotonin transmitting neurons in a dish

Why brushing movements on our hairy skin make us scratch

Bipolar patients’ brain cells predict response to lithium

Memory capacity of brain is 10 times more than previously thought

Experimental drug targeting Alzheimer’s disease shows antiaging effects

Loss of tiny genetic molecules could play role in neurodegenerative diseases

Grafted Plants’ Genomes can Communicate with Each Other

Autism-linked protein lays groundwork for healthy brain

‘Superhero’ microbiome bacteria protect against deadly symptoms during infection

Protein factories hidden in human jumping genes

Spotlight

Terrence Sejnowski Receives Coveted Neuroscience Prize

Evans Co-Leads First Pancreatic Cancer Research ‘Dream Team’

Beverly Emerson Named AAAS Fellow

Reuben Shaw Named New Director of Salk Cancer Center

Helmsley-Salk Fellows Receive NIH Director’s Early Independence Award

The Salk Institute Board of Trustees welcomes three new trustees

Influential Faculty

Events

Sold-Out Crowd at Science & Music Series

SALKEXCELLERATORS revved into 2016

Cancer researcher Diana Hargreaves captivates Salk’s women and science event

Salk’s education outreach partners with steam leadership series

Campaign success celebrated