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Former NYPD officer becomes security operations manager
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN The position of security operations manager, left vacant in March by the departure of 31-year university veteran Michael John, has been filled by Michael J. Murphy, former lieutenant commander detective of the New York Police Department. Mr. Murphy, who directly oversees d...
Winners announced in walking challenge
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN There’s no charity fundraising, no 26-mile course or nationally televised fanfare, but here on the Upper East Side, Rockefeller University has begun its own rendition of a New York City marathon. From October 13 to November 2, Human Resources hosted the first semiannual Ro...
New campus intranet centralizes electronic resources
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Since its introduction in 1994 the university’s Web site has tried to be all things to all people. Internal users trying to access library resources, get information on benefits or download petty cash forms have been forced to wade through links designed for prospective st...
Collaborative construction
Behind the fences, work on the Collaborative Research Center is proceeding on schedule. Over the past several months, crews in Smith Hall have poured a new slab for the sixth floor, constructed a new roof and penthouse for mechanical equipment, and have begun installing new windows and running el...
Nobel laureate George E. Palade, 95
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN At the presentation of his Nobel Prize in 1974, George Emil Palade was described as “largely responsible for the creation of modern cell biology.” The man whose research played a crucial part in bringing electron microscopy to the study of biological cells was an integ...
Milestones
Awarded: Jan L. Breslow, the 2008 Senior Scholar in Aging Award from The Ellison Medical Foundation, for a project to determine the link between the nuclear hormone receptor PXR and aging processes. Dr. Breslow is head of the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism. Michela Di Virgilio ...
An enzyme that mutates antibodies also targets a cancer-causing oncogene
The human immune system is in a perpetual state of self-experimentation. It expertly mutates and shuffles the DNA of its own cells to evolve new defenses against the vast array of microbes that try to invade our bodies. But when the genetic experiment goes awry, the result can be a deadly cancer....
Scientists drill holes through deadly bacteria's Kevlar-like hide
To protect themselves from human defenses, disease-causing bacteria have evolved a cell wall made from a nearly impenetrable tangle of tightly woven strands. That’s made it difficult for scientists to see what goes on inside these potentially deadly organisms. But that era is now over. In researc...
Structure of a virulent pathogen revealed
Like high-profile politicians, pathogenic bacteria dispatch advance teams to make way for their arrival. But these bacterial agents don’t just secure a safe passage, as a Secret Service detail might do. Rather they are teams of molecules that bacteria inject into cells they want to colonize, sent...
Research identifies cell-receptor as target for anti-inflammatory immune response
Invading pathogens provoke a series of molecular heroics that, when successful, muster an army of antibodies to neutralize the threat. Like with any close-quarter combat, however, an aggressive immune response runs the risk of friendly fire accidents. For the last decade, immunologists have inten...
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