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Visual neuroscientist named to Rockefeller's faculty
With every glance, the human eye collects the equivalent of several hundred megapixels of data and passes it to the brain for processing. Understanding what happens next — how our brains organize this piecemeal information to let us perceive entire objects — is the life’s work of Rockefeller...
Molecular machine turns packaged messenger RNA into a linear transcript
For RNA, the gateway to a productive life outside the nucleus is the nuclear pore complex, an amalgamation of 30 kinds of proteins that regulates all traffic passing through the nuclear membrane. New research from Rockefeller University shows that one of these proteins magnetically couples with a...
Stem cells in hair follicles point to general model of organ regeneration
Most people consider hair as a purely cosmetic part of their lives. To others, it may help uncover one of nature’s best-kept secrets: the body’s ability to regenerate organs. Now, new research from Rockefeller University gets to the root of the problem, revealing that a structure at the base of ...
Ritalin may cause changes in the brain's reward areas
A common treatment for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, prescribed millions of times a year, may change the brain in the same ways that cocaine does, a new study in mice suggests. Research from Rockefeller University shows that methylphenidate, commonly known as Ritalin, causes physical ...
Rockefeller neurobiologist proposes 'The end of sex as we once knew it"
Women are not from Venus any more than men are from Mars. But even though both sexes are perfectly terrestrial beings, they are not lacking in other differences. And not only in their reproductive organs and behavior, either, but in such unsexy characteristics as the propensity for drug abuse, fi...
Cori Bargmann wins 2009 Lounsbery Award
Cori Bargmann, head of Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, is the recipient of this year’s Richard Lounsbery Award from the National Academy of Sciences. The award, which was announced on Wednesday, is in recognition of Bargmann’s successful use of molecular an...
Discovery could lead to a new animal model for hepatitis C
During its career, the potentially fatal hepatitis C virus has banked its success on a rather unusual strategy: its limitations. Its inability to infect animals other than humans and chimpanzees has severely hampered scientists in developing a useful small animal model for the disease. But now, i...
Stress disrupts human thinking, but the brain can bounce back
A new neuroimaging study on stressed-out students suggests that male humans, like male rats, don’t do their most agile thinking under stress. The findings, published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that 20 male M.D. candidates in the middle of preparing for...
New method prevents microRNAs from escaping cells
MicroRNAs — one of the tiniest entities in the human genome — are great escape artists. Despite scientists’ best efforts to detect and capture them in different tissues, they often manage to make a getaway, sneaking through the tissues’ tiny holes before anyone can detect them. But now, by a...
Discovery could help scientists stop the 'death cascade' of neurons after a stroke
Distressed swimmers often panic, sapping the strength they need to keep their heads above water until help arrives. When desperate for oxygen, neurons behave in a similar way. They freak out, stupidly discharging energy until they drown in a sea of their own extruded salts. Every year, millions o...
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