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New technique efficiently turns antibodies into highly tuned ‘nanobodies’
Antibodies, in charge of recognizing and homing in on molecular targets, are among the most useful tools in biology and medicine. Nanobodies – antibodies’ tiny cousins – can do the same tasks, for example marking molecules for research or flagging diseased cells for destruction. But, thanks to...
In the News - HuffPostSci - Friedman
The good news and the bad news about beating obesity   "We don't 'pillory people for being very tall or short,' [Jeffrey] Friedman said, so it makes no sense to blame obese people for being that way--or for obese people to feel ashamed."
In the News - ABC - McEwen
Ebola: A crash course in fear and how it hurts us   "Bruce McEwen, a neuroscientist who studies stress at Rockefeller University in New York, said the fear can lead people to change their lifestyle, making them isolate themselves, lose sleep, stop exercising, change their diet for the worse and d...
In The News Q&A Torsten Wiesel
Q&A: Torsten Wiesel  “Torsten Wiesel is president emeritus of Rockefeller University in New York City. He shared half of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with David Hubel for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system. He tells Stefano Sandrone about hi...
One signal means different things to stem cells versus their progeny
Two listeners might hear the same message, but understand it differently and take different actions in response. Something similar happens within the hair follicle: Stem cells and their progeny react quite differently to an important group of signaling proteins. New experiments at Rockefeller Uni...
Atomic map reveals clues to how cholesterol is made
In spite of its dangerous reputation, cholesterol is in fact an essential component of human cells. Manufactured by the cells themselves, it serves to stiffen the cell’s membrane, helping to shape the cell and protect it. By mapping the structure of a key enzyme involved in cholesterol production...
Newly discovered brain cells explain a prosocial effect of oxytocin
Oxytocin, the body’s natural love potion, helps couples fall in love, makes mothers bond with their babies, and encourages teams to work together. Now new research at Rockefeller University reveals a mechanism by which this prosocial hormone has its effect on interactions between the sexes, at le...
In the News - McEwen - NewSci
Brave or reckless? Thrill-seekers' brains can tell you   "'It really has to do with the reckless and the brave,' says Bruce McEwen at Rockefeller University, New York, who wasn't involved with the work. The brave feel fear but are able to overcome it, whereas the reckless seem to have a brain tha...
Rockefeller neurobiology lab is awarded first-round BRAIN initiative grant
A proposal to develop a new way to remotely control brain cells from Sarah Stanley, a Research Associate in Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, headed by Jeffrey M. Friedman, is among the first to receive funding from U.S. President Barack Obama’s BRAIN initiative. The pro...
'Programmable' antibiotic harnesses an enzyme to attack drug-resistant microbes
The multitude of microbes scientists have found populating the human body have good, bad and mostly mysterious implications for our health. But when something goes wrong, we defend ourselves with the undiscriminating brute force of traditional antibiotics, which wipe out everything at once, regar...
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