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Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande awarded Lewis Thomas Prize
by LESLIE CHURCH Among the limits of modern medicine is the element of human error. Atul Gawande, surgeon, professor, writer and public health researcher, reminds us that doctors make mistakes. But as an advocate for reducing error and increasing efficiency in health care, he also wants to help t...
Nobel laureate and longtime faculty member Gerald Edelman dies at 84
by LESLIE CHURCH Gerald M. Edelman, a Rockefeller alumnus, former faculty member and Nobel laureate who uncovered the chemical structure of the antibody in 1961, died on May 18 at the age of 84. A graduate of Henry Kunkel’s laboratory and a member of the university’s second graduating class, D...
Milestones
Awarded: C. David Allis, the 2014 Japan Prize in Life Sciences from the Japan Prize Foundation, for his pioneering work in epigenetics and his discovery that chemical modifications of DNA-packaging proteins play a key role in regulating the activity of individual genes. The prize, worth approxima...
Twenty-four students receive Ph.D.s at Rockefeller’s 56th Convocation
The Rockefeller University awarded doctoral degrees to 24 students at its convocation ceremony today. Additionally, the university awarded three honorary degrees, to John Gurdon, Julian Robertson and Sinya Yamanaka. Gurdon and Yamanaka are 2012 Nobel Prize laureates known for discoveries related ...
To recover consciousness, brain activity passes through newly detected states
Anesthesia makes otherwise painful procedures possible by derailing a conscious brain, rendering it incapable of sensing or responding to a surgeon’s knife. But little research exists on what happens when the drugs wear off. “I always found it remarkable that someone can recover from anesthesia...
In the News
Obama N.I.H. Seeks $4.5 Billion to Try to Crack the Code of How Brains Function   "The report, from a committee led by Cori Bargmann of Rockefeller University and William Newsome of Stanford University, emphasizes technology development for the first five years, and use of the new technology in ...
Daniel Schramek awarded Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation by a Postdoctoral Fellow
Daniel Schramek, a postdoctoral fellow in Elaine Fuchs’s Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, has received the Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The national award, in its second year, is given to one postdoc and one graduate student ann...
Research details how developing neurons sense a chemical cue
Symmetry is an inherent part of development. As an embryo, an organism’s brain and spinal cord, like the rest of its body, organize themselves into left and right halves as they grow. But a certain set of nerve cells do something unusual: they cross from one side to the other. New research in mic...
Science online: May 29, 2014
Science online: May 29, 2014 Structures of netrin-1 bound to two receptors provide insight into its axon guidance mechanism Kai Xu, Zhuhao Wu, Nicolas Renier, Alexander Antipenko, Dorothea Tzvetkova-Robev, Yan Xu, Maria Minchenko, Vincenzo Nardi-Dei, Kanagalaghatta R. Rajashankar, Juha Himanen, M...
Nature 509: 637–640 (14-5-29)
Nature 509: 637–640 Clonal selection in the germinal centre by regulated proliferation and hypermutation Alexander D. Gitlin, Ziv Shulman and Michel C. Nussenzweig
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