National Institutes of Health
Every year, the National Institutes of Health selects a handful of researchers performing innovative blue-sky scientific research to receive funding through its High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.
Nobel laureate John Hopfield, an emeritus Princeton professor whose work…
For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure.
Why? Because it’s difficult to cure what we don’t understand, and the human brain, with its billions of neurons connected by a hundred trillion synapses, is almost…
For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure.
Why? Because it’s difficult to cure what we don’t understand, and the human brain, with its billions of neurons connected by a hundred trillion synapses, is almost…
The discovery of a potent combination of two antibiotics could provide a solution to both the infection and its recurrence.
Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were discovered, people have wondered about these ancient hominins. How are they different from us? How much are they like us? Did our ancestors get along with them? Fight them? Love them? The recent discovery of a group called Denisovans, a Neanderthal-like group who populated Asia and Oceania, added its…
In 2007, Senator Barack Obama was running for president, the final Harry Potter book was published, and David MacMillan, recently arrived at Princeton Chemistry, sat down with his lab members and challenged them to tackle the longstanding problem of coupling alcohols together.
This month in…
Princeton scientists are peering into the smallest corners of matter using an exceptional collection of sophisticated microscopes — some so big they fill a room. These remarkable instruments have established the University as a world leader in microscopy and led to countless discoveries.
A way to stop cancer cells from metastasizing…
Research conducted at Princeton in worms has provided thus far the most comprehensive description of how signals flow through the brain. The findings could provide new information that help advance our understanding of how neurons work together as interacting components to process information.
2023 marks the fifth year of the NIH-funded New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) TL1 fellowship program. Two…
Researchers in the MacMillan Lab have unlocked a pathway to using earth-abundant metal photocatalysts with a discovery that exploits an unusual phenomenon called the Marcus inverted region.