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The Wenner-Gren Foundation

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Announcing the 2017 Sloan Research Fellows

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02/21/2017

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announces the selection of 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers as the recipients of the 2017 Sloan Research Fellowships.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Simons Foundation Releases Statement on Executive Order on Visas and Immigration

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02/14/2017

As an organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific knowledge, the Simons Foundation stands united with the scientists and institutions we support in their opposition to the recently announced executive order on visas and immigration to...

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Simons Foundation Backs Central Site for Life-Sciences Preprints

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02/13/2017

Coalition of scientists and research agencies argue for a one-stop shop server.

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Antoine Georges to Lead New Center for Computational Quantum Physics Supported by the Simons Foundation

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01/12/2017

The Simons Foundation is delighted to announce the formation of the Center for Computational Quantum Physics, in the foundation’s new Flatiron Institute, and the appointment of Antoine Georges as its director.

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Simons Foundation Supports Study That Finds Bacteria Can Survive In Oxygen-Free Marine Environments

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12/19/2016

MIT oceanographers have found that some small marine organisms — mostly bacteria — have a surprisingly low limit to the amount of oxygen they need to breathe.

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Simons Foundation Launches Flatiron Institute to Explore Galaxy Formation, Genomics, Neuroscience and Other Fields

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11/23/2016

Each year thousands of genomes are sequenced, millions of neuronal activity traces are recorded, and light from hundreds of millions of galaxies is captured by our newest telescopes, all creating datasets of staggering size.

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Supports New Gene-Editing Technology That Partially Restores Vision in Blind Animals

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11/17/2016

Salk Institute researchers have discovered a holy grail of gene editing-the ability to, for the first time, insert DNA at a target location into the non-dividing cells that make up the majority of adult organs and tissues.

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Supported by Simons Foundation, Scientists Discover Clues To Altered Brain Wiring In Autism

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11/15/2016

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered that mutations in PTEN affect the assembly of connections between two brain areas important for the processing of social cues.

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Health

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Simons Foundation Supports Research That Sheds New Light on RNA’s Journey Out of a Cell’s Nucleus

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11/10/2016

Cells secure DNA within their nuclei like a secret code stashed in a vault. However, the tightly controlled borders of the nucleus create a challenge: In order for the cell to produce essential proteins, messages derived from DNA must somehow escape...

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