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Division of Biology and Biological Engineering at California Institiute of Technology

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The Delicate Dance of Dominance: How the Fruit Fly Brain Controls Threat Displays - Biology and Biological Engineering bbe.caltech.edu/news/the-del…

The Delicate Dance of Dominance: How the Fruit Fly Brain Controls Threat Displays

How does the fruit fly brain control its wings and legs to create elaborate social displays?

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Shedding Light on the Brain: Neuroscientists Reflect on Optogenetics Nobel - Biology and Biological Engineering bbe.caltech.edu/news/sheddin…

Shedding Light on the Brain: Neuroscientists Reflect on Optogenetics Nobel

Optogenetics, the subject of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has revolutionized the work of Caltech neuroscientists.

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Advancing Infertility Treatment through Human Germ Cell Formation - Biology and Biological Engineering bbe.caltech.edu/news/advanci…

Advancing Infertility Treatment through Human Germ Cell Formation

Germ cells, which eventually give rise to eggs and sperm, are the subject of a new $2.4 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

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Caltech Biologists Receive High-Risk, High-Reward Grants from the NIH - caltech.edu caltech.edu/about/news/calte…

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The California Institute of Technology aims to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education.

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Jellyfish Enable Surprising New Findings about Cancer - Biology and Biological Engineering bbe.caltech.edu/news/jellyfi…

Jellyfish Enable Surprising New Findings about Cancer

Jellyfish experiments and a new mathematical model suggest that cellular proliferation may be protective against cancers

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Novel Molecular Shuttle Could Deliver Targeted, Diverse Therapies to the Brain - Biology and Biological Engineering bbe.caltech.edu/news/novel-m…

Novel Molecular Shuttle Could Deliver Targeted, Diverse Therapies to the Brain

A new technique developed at Caltech called BrainCAB (Brain access through Carbonic Anhydrase-binder Bioconjugation) offers a more effective way to transport a broad range of medicines across the...

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First Findings of Mirror-like Activity in Individual Human Neurons - Biology and Biological Engineering bbe.caltech.edu/news/first-f…

First Findings of Mirror-like Activity in Individual Human Neurons

High-level brain regions that govern planning and intent demonstrate mirror-like activity when humans observe the actions of others, but only when the observation is relevant to a subject's intentions

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BBE Newsletter - August 2026 mailchi.mp/caltech/bbe-newsl…
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Gold Records and 3D Molecular Models: Step Into the Office of Bil Clemons — Caltech Magazine

Music and mentorship can be found in the office of this biochemist. By Omar Shamout If you were to walk into Bil Clemons’s office in Braun Laboratories, it is likely that his 6-year-old Aussie...

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Chan and Elowitz Named to Great Britain's Royal Society

The theoretical chemist and bioengineer join the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence

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Single Tissue Snapshot Reveals Biological Processes Unfolding Over Time

Long Cai and collaborators showed that a single tissue image can reveal how cells coordinate over weeks of development, uncovering an intrinsic clock in the support cells that help organize this...

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Scanning the Body with Sound

Caltech researchers have developed a system that can perform deep ultrasound imaging on whole cross-sections of the human body.

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