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Paul Nurse co-hosts new PBS show with Charlie Rose
The 'Charlie Rose Science Series' brings current research, and researchers, into the public eye by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Paul Nurse is taking his views on science and society, well known in the Rockefeller community, to a wider forum: a new public television series. Dr. Nurse is co-host, with Emmy...
McKinney to head new lab at EPFL
by TALLEY HENNING BROWN John McKinney, associate professor and head of Rockefeller’s Laboratory of Infection Biology, has accepted a new appointment at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland, as a professor in the recently established Global Health Institute withi...
Milestones
Awarded: Science Outreach students Theodore Drivas (2006, Gadsby Lab, mentor Attila Gulyas Kovacs) and Christopher Loo (2005–06, Chua Lab, mentors Rafael Catala-Rodriguez and Nam-Hai Chua), semifinalists in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search. Jeffrey M. Friedman, the Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko...
Humans, flies smell alike, neurobiologists find
The nose knows – whether it’s on a fruit fly or a human. And while it would seem that how a fruit fly judges odors should differ from how a human smells, new research from Rockefeller University finds that at the neurobiological level, the two organisms have more in common than one might expect....
Viral protein is an effective preventative against infection
For parents, eight million cases of acute middle-ear infections every year add up to a lot of sleepless nights and trips to the pediatrician. But new research from a collaboration between Rockefeller University and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital could change all that. Research in mice sugg...
Chemical cues turn embryonic stem cells into cerebellar neurons
Embryonic stem cells have shown a great deal of promise for alleviating heart disease and regenerating organs. But for some of the conditions for which people hold out the most hope — Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, for example — there’s been little evidence to date that stem cells can work. ...
For dying cells, timing is everything
Conventional wisdom suggests that cells are at all times balanced precariously between life and death, with proteins that could kill the cell poised to strike at a moment’s notice. While this is certainly true in some cases, new research from Rockefeller University shows that it is not universal,...
Rockefller donated $10,000 to public school
The Rockefeller University has donated $10,000 to New York City’s Public School 183, Robert Lewis Stevenson Elementary School. The money is designated for the school’s science program and will be used to purchase equipment and supplies and pay for other costs associated with teaching science to ...
New therapeutic target for Alzheimer's could lead to drugs without side effects
It’s been 100 years since Alzheimer’s disease was first described, and yet our best treatments in development for the disease are still highly toxic drugs. But new research from Rockefeller University, published in the February 26 online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science...
Kety protein for Hepatitis C entry identified
For as many as 200 million people worldwide infected with hepatitis C, a leading cause of chronic liver disease, treatment options are only partially effective. But new research by Rockefeller University scientists points to a potential new target for better drugs: a key protein that resides in h...
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