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New report bolsters theory on ear's inner amplifier
Seven years ago, A. James Hudspeth, head of Rockefeller’s Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, proposed a new theory for the workings of the inner ear. In research published last week in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Hudspeth bolsters his theory b...
Reversing sugar's effect on the brain
The estimated 1 million people in the United States with type 1 diabetes know that uncontrolled high blood sugar can attack the body’s organs. New research from Rockefeller University’s Bruce McEwen and colleagues at the University of South Carolina shows that the brain is one target of the dise...
Scientists teach worms to learn
Thanks to their simple 302-cell nervous system, the worm is a great model for biologists studying how brain cells work. Unfortunately, worms are not known for their memory. So when Rockefeller University’s Cori Bargmann wanted to study how worms can form memories based on odors, she first needed ...
Application deadline for faculty search is next week
Scientists interested in tenure-track faculty positions in the biological and biomedical sciences at The Rockefeller University must submit applications by November 15. The university is recruiting candidates at the assistant professor level who are in the early stages of their scientific careers...
Bruce McEwen awarded Goldman-Rakic Prize
Rockefeller University’s Bruce McEwen has received the Goldman-Rakic Prize for Cognitive Neuroscience from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the world’s largest donor-supported philanthropy devoted to the support of research on brain and behavioral disorders. Mc...
Protecting the brain from overactivity
Alzheimer’s disease, depression and epilepsy all share a problem with a single brain chemical: glutamate. A neurotransmitter, glutamate is critical to the process by which individual brain cells send messages to one another and it plays a key role in learning and memory. Under normal conditions...
Immunologist Philippa Marrack to receive Rockefeller University’s Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
The second annual Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, a major international prize awarded by The Rockefeller University to an outstanding woman scientist, will be presented to immunologist Philippa Marrack on November 10. The prize, which was established by Rockefeller University Professor and Nobel l...
Margaret Hamburg elected to Rockefeller Board of Trustees
Rockefeller University’s Trustees have elected Margaret Hamburg, M.D., a former New York City Health Commissioner, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services and one of the youngest people ever elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine, to serve on the university’s Board. “Peggy ...
Bacteria build walls to withstand antibiotics
Antibiotic resistant bacteria, which are proliferating in hospitals and causing major headaches for physicians, cheat death by finding ways to fortify their cell walls against the deadly drugs. The question is: how? New research from the laboratory of Alexander Tomasz shows that one gene, called ...
High blood pressure linked to gene regulation
Genes, as much as treadmills and salads, dictate blood pressure. But new research from Rockefeller University suggests that even the tiniest changes to our DNA can create a predisposition to hypertension. Scientists have focused much of their efforts to understand high blood pressure on a gene ca...
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