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Injections providing protection against AIDS in monkeys, studies find   "Two studies [one by David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at Rockefeller University] each found 100 percent protection in monkeys that got monthly injections of antiretroviral drugs, and there was evid...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111: 3614-3619 (14-3-4)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111: 3614-3619 Mechanosensitivity is mediated directly by the lipid membrane in TRAAK and TREK1 K+ channels Stephen G. Brohawn, Zhenwei Su and Roderick MacKinnon
Adjunct faculty member Kayo Inaba receives L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science award
Kayo Inaba, known for her work on dendritic cells, is being honored as the Asia-Pacific recipient of the L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science award, which supports eminent women in science throughout the world who are working in the life and physical sciences. Inaba is an adjunct faculty member in Mic...
Elaine Fuchs receives prestigious award from American Association for Cancer Research
In recognition of her contributions to the understanding of skin, skin stem cells and skin-related disease, Rockefeller’s Elaine Fuchs will receive the 2014 Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research from the American Association for Cancer Research. The award, announced to...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: March 3, 2014
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: March 3, 2014 microRNAs are biomarkers of oncogenic human papillomavirus infections Xiaohong Wang, Hsu-Kun Wang, Yang Li, Markus Hafner, Nilam Sanjib  Banerjee, Shuang Tang, Daniel Briskin, Craig Meyers, Louise T. Chow, Xing Xie, Thomas ...
Current Biology 24: 494-508 (14-3-3)
Current Biology 24: 494-508 FLRT3 is a robo1-interacting protein that determines netrin-1 attraction in developing axons Eduardo Leyva-Díaz, Daniel del Toro, Maria José Menal, Serafi Cambray, Rafael Susín, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Rüdiger Klein, Joaquim Egea and Guillermina López-Bendito
Science 343: 1010-1014 (14-2-28)
Science 343: 1010-1014 Detection of a recurrent DNAJB1-PRKACA chimeric transcript in fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma Joshua N. Honeyman, Elana P. Simon, Nicolas Robine, Rachel Chiaroni-Clarke, David G. Darcy, Irene Isabel P. Lim, Caroline E. Gleason, Jennifer M. Murphy, Brad R. Rosenberg, ...
Researchers discover unusual genetic mutation linked to adolescent liver cancer
In the race for better treatments and possible cures, rare diseases are often left behind. In a collaboration of researchers at The Rockefeller University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the New York Genome Center (NYGC), an unusual mutation has been found that is strongly linked to o...
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Teen helps scientists study her own rare disease   "Making that idea work required a lot of help from real scientists: Her father, [Sanford Simon], who runs a cellular biophysics lab at The Rockefeller University; her surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; and gene specialists at the ...
Research shows combination of sensory signals draw mosquitoes in for a bite
It may seem like mosquitoes will bite anything with a pulse, but they’re actually quite strategic in picking their victims. A new study from The Rockefeller University looked at the interaction of different sensory cues — carbon dioxide, heat and odor — that attract mosquitoes to humans, and f...
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