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Salk Discoveries
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Insect-eating plants have fascinated biologists for more than a century, but how plants evolved the ability to capture and consume live prey has largely remained a…
The best offense is a great defense for some…
From ehincks
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Kay Tye and researchers at the Salk Institute and colleagues have discovered the molecule in the brain responsible for associating good or bad feelings with a memory.…
Making a memory positive or negative
From ehincks
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Cancer can be caused by genetic mutations, yet the impact of specific types such as structural variants that break and rejoin DNA, can vary widely. The findings,…
Flipping the switch - Salk scientists shed light…
From ehincks
Scientific Communications
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Neural traveling waves shape dynamics and computation across maps of sensory space
Lyle Muller-Neural traveling waves shape dynamics…
From Kent Schnoeker
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Public Lectures
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High School Science Day 2025
Agnieszka Kendrick - My Journey to Salk
From Mike Jeffs
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Bridging scientific disciplines with AI
Donor Appreciation - Talmo Pereira
From Mike Jeffs
Salk Podcasts
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Jeff Jones is a staff scientist in the lab of Professor Rusty Gage. Jones' journey to science started on a dirt road in Florida and with a slew of questions about…
Jeff Jones shares what we can learn from…
From Mike Jeffs
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Beyond Lab Walls - A Salk Insitute Podcast
Irene Lopéz Gutiérrez stresses the…
From Mike Jeffs
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Things are changing in Alzheimer's research. We've got new tools and new ideas, and we want you to know about them. To kick off Salk’s “Year of…
Beyond Lab Walls GETTING TO THE ROOT OF…
From Mike Jeffs
Faculty Profiles
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From Then to When | Meet Salk Scientists | Joe…
From Mike Jeffs
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Kay Tye is a professor in the Systems Neurobiology Laboratory and the Wylie Vale Chair. She seeks to understand the neural-circuit basis of emotion that leads to…
From Then to When | Meet Salk Scientists | Kay Tye
From Mike Jeffs
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Eiman Azim is an associate professor in the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory and holds the Williams Scandling Development Chair. He is a neuroscientist who investigates…
From Then to When | Meet Salk Scientists | Eiman…
From ehincks