Sleep is still a mysterious process that is difficult to study in vertebrate animals. By conducting a genetic screen in zebrafish, biologist David Prober and his colleagues have identified a gene that seems to serve as nature's stimulant.

Dianne Newman has been awarded the National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology.

Caltech biologists have developed a vector capable of noninvasive delivery of genetic cargo throughout the adult central nervous system.

Caltech board chair emeritus and longtime Compaq chairman Benjamin M. (Ben) Rosen (BS ’54) and his wife, Donna, have made a bequest commitment to advance scientific exploration at the intersection of biology and engineering.

Explore the origins of Caltech's joint MD/PhD programs, which have helped dozens of students develop expertise in both basic science and clinical research.

Biologists have identified a network of proteins that guides neural synapse formation in Drosophila brains.