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Single stressful events bring about gradual change in brain structure
Commuting is never fun, and is almost always stressful, in part because we often have no control over what happens to us. But everyday we get in our car, or board the train or bus, and make our way to work, having become accustomed to this stress, not realizing that this stress may have a measura...
Protein destruction helps plants enter a different life stage
As a seed awakens and begins to sprout, it must make a decision: does it have everything it needs to grow, or should it wait for better conditions? The choice rests on the presence or absence of one protein, ABI3, and new research from the laboratory of Nam-Hai Chua, Ph.D., at Rockefeller Univers...
Size doesn't matter
Rockefeller scientists show that microRNAs play an essential role in the development of the fruit fly In a story reminiscent of David and Goliath, new research from Rockefeller University shows that sometimes the smallest molecules can be the most powerful. In the July 1 issue of Cell, Ulrike Gau...
Researchers create infectious hepatitis C virus in a test tube
Method enables scientists to study all stages of virus' life cycle A team of researchers led by scientists at The Rockefeller University has produced for the first time an infectious form of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in laboratory cultures of human cells. The finding, reported in the June 9 iss...
Worming our way into the brain
Rockefeller scientists find that studying glial cells in the roundworm C. elegans may provide insight into a variety of human brain diseases. The key to understanding our brains may lie within a one-millimeter long worm, new research from Rockefeller University indicates. Reporting in the June is...
One gene links newborn neurons with those that die in diseases such as Alzheimer's
Naturally replaced neurons may hold the key to understanding processes of neurodegeneration In certain parts of the brain, cells called neurons go through a cycle of death and replenishment. New research from Rockefeller University's Fernando Nottebohm, Ph.D., shows that these replaceable neurons...
Beyond epigenetics
Rockefeller scientists show nuclear protein Ezh2 helps establish previously unknown signaling pathway in cells Since 2001, scientists have wrestled with the discovery that there are fewer genes in humans than biological processes linked to those genes over the course of a human lifespan. One way ...
For young canaries learning their song, freedom in youth gives way to rules in adulthood
For some kinds of birds, learning to sing is as much a part of growing up as learning to talk is for human children. They listen to their parents and other adults, memorize, imitate, practice, and in time are able to chirp a tune characteristic of their species that will help attract a mate. Now ...
Vaccine developed at Rockefeller University boosts natural killer T cells in patients with cancer
Both arms of immune system respond A new vaccine designed at The Rockefeller University boosted a type of fast-responding immune system cell called the natural killer T (NKT) cell in patients with advanced cancer. The study surprised researchers by revealing the ability of these NKT cells to spur...
Rockefeller University researchers are changing the face of addiction treatment
New study shows that "contingency management" treatment increases patient success rates and improves the morale of clinic staff and administration People addicted to heroin, alcohol and other drugs of abuse often fail to stay clean because they won't go to or won't stay in treatment. Reporting in...
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