Liu received the ACS Award for Creative Invention. This award recognizes an inventor with a successful application of research in chemistry and/or chemical engineering that contributes to the material prosperity and happiness of people.

Doudna is the recipient of the 2026 Priestley Medal. This award is the highest honor bestowed by ACS, and it annually recognizes an individual for distinguished service to chemistry.

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Please join us in congratulating HHMI Investigators Jennifer Doudna and David R. Liu (@davidrliu), recipients of national awards from the American Chemical Society (@AmerChemSociety) for 2026. 🔗

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HHMI Chief of Strategic Initiatives Bodo Stern writes in the LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog about Nature's recent decision to publish peer review reports. "True transparency in peer review must begin at the outset," he writes, "not as an afterthought to editorial.

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How do plants fight off microbial invaders? . HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Kevin Cox Jr. (@K_Bioguy_Cox) is uncovering the cellular-level conversations that shape plant immunity. At the Washington University in St. Louis and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (@DanforthCenter),

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Igor Siwanowicz created these images of the underside of the front foot of a male diving beetle. You can see suction cups that are used during mating, as well as a broad plate and exterior spines that aid in swimming. The front foot of a male diving beetle evolved as a means of

Meet Kyndall Nicholas (@KyndallNicholas), an HHMI Gilliam Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (@Penn). She studies how our everyday diet can build resilience against traumatic brain injury, asking what we can eat daily to help protect our brains.

How do cells migrate? . In this video, created by Andy Moore at @HHMIJanelia, you can see the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) shifting and reshaping as the cell migrates. The ER helps produce proteins and lipids and comes in two forms: rough (with ribosomes) and smooth (with lipid and

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Why do bacteria talk to each other? . Julie Valastyan (Bassler Lab, @Princeton) studies cell-cell communication to understand how bacteria behave, in hopes that scientists can one day design new therapies to combat bacterial infections. 🧫🧠

Andy Moore at @HHMIJanelia created this image to visualize the organization of microtubules in several adjacent cells. Like a spider web, cells use a network of molecular “highways” called microtubules to move cellular and molecular components around. Images like this can

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How does your brain mature over time? 🧠 . HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar HaoSheng Sun (@mus_elegans) is exploring the genetic timing mechanisms that guide the maturation of the nervous system. At The University of Alabama at Birmingham (@UABHeersink), his lab is investigating