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Building a better vaccine
Rockefeller’s Charlie Rice thinks that scientists struggling to create a vaccine to protect against the widely predicted avian flu pandemic might learn a thing or two from yellow fever. “The yellow fever 17D vaccine is one of the most successful vaccines ever created,” says Rice, the Maurice ...
From primordial soup to cells
Life is complicated. Even the simplest cell has to deal with continual changes in temperature, pressure, food, and anything else the environment wants to throw at it. After millions of years adapting to every kind of condition, it is hard to determine what genes are actually driving the cell and ...
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...
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...
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...
A single protein is crucial to memory formation, scientists show
In the spaces between brain cells, where the long ends of the cells nearly touch one another, electrical and chemical messages are transmitted at a furious pace. New findings published in August and this week show that a single protein called Nova is responsible for regulating the quality of the ...
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