Salk Institute

@salkinstitute · La Jolla, CA · joined 31 Dec 2008

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Salk Institute@salkinstitute19 Sep

Our brains constantly integrate information to determine how we behave. Much of this coordination depends on neuromodulators—chemical messengers that establish how neurons communicate and function. One neuromodulator in fruit flies, octopamine, can regulate a wide range of http

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Salk Institute@salkinstitute18 Sep

🌱 From lab discovery to field testing: A new @AP story spotlights Salk’s deeper-rooted crop research and an $18 million grant from the Bezos Earth Fund to advance its next phase. The grant supports ROOTS, a three-year project using AI-driven soybean research, field trials, and h

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Salk Institute@salkinstitute17 Sep

FUN FACT: When glucose gets low during fasting, your brain can switch fuels and run on molecules made from stored fat. That metabolic flexibility helps keep the brain and heart powered between meals—but Salk scientist Christian Metallo suspects our ability to switch between http

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Salk Institute@salkinstitute17 Sep

@salkinstitute The microglial link raises a key question: does restoring that microprotein rescue function, or is it a marker of dysfunction? I’d be curious to dig through the literature with Sci-Quest: https://t.co/AMUYFvZ8PU 13 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Salk Institute@salkinstitute17 Sep

Thanks to Salk science, researchers now have more than 1,000 newly identified microproteins to investigate in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. They also found a potential link between one microprotein and dysfunction in microglia, the brain’s resident immune cells, in https

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Salk Institute@salkinstitute16 Sep

Twice a year, on the spring and fall equinoxes, the sunset perfectly aligns with Salk's River of Life, as intended by Salk founder Jonas Salk and architect Louis Kahn. The Institute's intentional architecture reflects the intent behind the science within. This year, Salk https:/

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Engagement rate	1.22%	1.52%	0.80×

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