Clodagh O'Shea, Conrado Soria, Fanny Estermann, Kristen Espantman

August 25, 2010
A novel mechanism used by adenovirus to sidestep the cell's suicide program, could go a long way to explain how tumor suppressor genes are silenced in tumor cells and pave the way for a new type of targeted cancer therapy, report researchers ...read more >>

John Young

August 16, 2010
A multi-institutional team headed by John Young, Ph.D., a professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and Sumit Chanda, Ph.D., an associate professor at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, has been awarded a $21 million Program Project ...read more >>

Ursula Bellugi and Inna Fishman

August 13, 2010
People with Williams syndrome—known for their indiscriminate friendliness and ease with strangers—process spoken language differently from people with autism spectrum disorders—characterized by social withdrawal and isolation—found ...read more >>

Robert H. Wurtz and Gerald R. Fink

August 10, 2010
Salk Institute Non-Resident Fellows Dr. Robert H. Wurtz, an NIH distinguished investigator, and Dr. Gerald R. Fink, a professor of genetics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have been awarded the 2010 Prize of The Peter and Patricia Grub ...read more >>

Jim Umen

July 08, 2010
One of the most pivotal steps in evolution-the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms-may not have required as much retooling as commonly believed, found a globe-spanning collaboration of scientists led by researchers at the Salk Institute ...read more >>

Fred H. Gage, Helena Mira

July 01, 2010
Stem cells in the brain remain dormant until called upon to divide and make more neurons. However, little has been known about the molecular guards that keep them quiet. Now scientists from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified the sig ...read more >>