The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of ...

This year’s Annual Meeting will be held from Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27. Although in-person attendance is limited to NAS members, several sessions and ceremonies will be livestreamed ...

A consistent finding in aging research is that older adults tend to perform worse than younger adults on tests of memory and cognitive function. These differences are often attributed to age-related ...

My main research interests are focused on regulation of immune and inflammatory responses. Inflammation can be initiated by a variety of noxious conditions, including infections, cellular stress and ...

Richard Borshay Lee's research interests have evolved over time. His early work at the University of California Berkeley, at Harvard and at Rutgers (1963-72) focused on the evolution of human behavior ...

My research falls in two areas: how colors are named in different languages and the structure of languages. Contrary to earlier anthropological and linguistic relativity doctrine, we now know that ...

As a space physicist, I combine theory and data interpretation to study the magnetospheres of Earth and Jupiter thus to learn about the large-scale dynamical processes that occur in magnetized plasmas ...

Dr. Richard J. Roberts is the Chief Scientific Officer at New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts. He received a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1968 from Sheffield University and then moved as a ...

Dr. Angelaki is the Wilhelmina Robertson Professor & Chair of the Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical & Computer ...

Sakaguchi studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms of immunological tolerance and immune regulation. He has shown that a population of immunosuppressive T-lymphocytes, designated regulatory T ...

In my lab I use C. elegans molecular genetics and genomics to study problems in developmental biology and physiology. I have have studied the pathways by which microRNAs and other small RNAs regulate ...

Lindy Elkins-Tanton studies the formation and subsequent evolution of rocky planets. She was born and grew up in Ithaca, New York, and now splits her time between Arizona and Massachusetts.