For more than four decades, HHMI’s board chairs have played a central role in guiding the Institute’s growth and impact. Their leadership and contributions have helped position HHMI to continue ...

This is an image of the pattern on the elytron (hardened forewing) of a reticulated beetle (Tenomerga cinerea). You can see several of the pits that cover the elytra of this beetle (1), giving it its ...

Imagine living your life with a 10-foot–long straw fastened to your face, like this acorn weevil does. That protrusion, called a rostrum, is highly useful for the weevil, however, allowing it to feed ...

While this might look like an impressionistic painting of a lush bouquet, it’s actually a microscopic image of mold growing in a culture dish. In fact, if you’ve ever wondered what the fuzz on those ...

This is an image of several pollen grains infected with parasitic fungi sitting on the stigma of a mallow flower. The larger grains are from the mallow (1) and the smaller grains are from an aster ...

Jumping Spider Focus This jumping spider appears to be staring at you with four giant eyes, but it actually has eight eyes around the top of its cephalothorax (head and upper body). While the largest ...

The radiating, kaleidoscopic pattern you see here was once the living glass skeleton – the cell wall – of a single-celled organism called a diatom. These organisms absorb silicon from their ...

This is the embryo of a veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) that’s been stained to visualize its developing skeleton. Its bones are red (1), the cartilage is blue (2), and some of its developing ...

Pyramidal neurons are a very common type of neuron in the brain. Their cell bodies have a unique pyramidal shape that is the source of their name. They make up about two-thirds of all neurons in the ...

This is the ventral (bottom) side of a fan-fingered gecko (Ptyodactylus guttatus). You can see the small, smooth scales that line its belly, its tail, and the undersides of its legs (1). And look ...

Confetti mice are very useful in research because they allow scientists to track which cells produce which proteins based on their color under a fluorescent microscope. These mice are particularly ...

This roughed-up red blood cell is infected with plasmodium – the parasite that causes malaria. These parasites invade and reproduce inside red blood cells and cells of the liver, causing fever, ...