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Farmland Peaks, Crop Space to Revert Back to Nature, Report Finds   "Humanity has reached what Rockefeller University scientists, in a new report, call 'peak farmland.' In the next half-century, a geographical area more than twice the size of France — or equivalent to 10 Iowas — will return to...
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Worried about Underwater Creatures, Scientists Want to Hush the Noisy Oceans   "[O]ceans have actually become very loud due to man-made noise from oil rigs, sonar and ship propellers. And scientists are worried that all that added noise is hurting marine life. So they’re planning a massive exper...
Nature 492: 382–386 (12-20-12)
Nature 492: 382–386 FMRP targets distinct mRNA sequence elements to regulate protein expression Manuel Ascano, Neelanjan Mukherjee, Pradeep Bandaru, Jason B. Miller, Jeffrey D. Nusbaum, David L. Corcoran, Christine Langlois, Mathias  Munschauer, Scott Dewell, Markus Hafner, Zev Williams, Uwe Ohle...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109: 21076-21080 (12-18-12)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109: 21076-21080 Contribution of active hair-bundle motility to nonlinear amplification in the mammalian cochlea Fumiaki Nin, Tobias Reichenbach, Jonathan A. N. Fisher and A. J. Hudspeth
Journal of Experimental Medicine: December 17, 2012
Journal of Experimental Medicine: December 17, 2012 Mechanism of DNA resection during intrachromosomal recombination and immunoglobulin class switching Anne Bothmer, Philipp C. Rommel, Anna Gazumyan, Federica  Polato, Colleen R. Reczek, Matthias F. Muellenbeck, Sonja Schaetzlein, Winfried Edelman...
Announcements
Annual holiday party is December 20. Celebrate the season with friends and colleagues: this year’s holiday party will showcase the diversity of New York City with food, drinks, music, dancing and entertainment, in Abby Lounge and Dining Room and throughout the CRC, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. For more...
No scientific losses from Hurricane Sandy
by ZACH VEILLEUX When water from the East River first spilled over its banks and began washing onto the FDR Drive late in the evening of October 29, the several dozen or so administrators and essential personnel monitoring the storm knew it was not likely to stop at the curb. The lowest levels of...
Implementing the Strategic Plan
As many of you know, a major activity during my first year at the university was the development of a strategic plan that will guide the university over the next several years. This plan, which reflects many months of intensive work by the strategic planning committee as well as essential input f...
Rockefeller opens its doors to Open House NY
by LESLIE CHURCH For those without access, the Rockefeller campus can seem shrouded in mystery. But on a rainy weekend this October, the university opened its doors and let the city in as part of Open House New York weekend. The annual event showcases hundreds of the city’s most architecturally a...
University honors Norton Zinder with symposium and annual lecture
by LESLIE CHURCH Norton D. Zinder, the pioneering geneticist and molecular biologist who helped lay the foundation for the new field of molecular biology in the 1950s and ’60s, was honored with a memorial symposium in November. An annual endowed lecture is also being established in his name. Dr. ...
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