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Living cells prosper without telomeres
In most cells, telomeres are a critical protection against death: If these caps at the ends of chromosomes fail, the cell’s life is cut short. But what’s true for most cells isn’t true for all cells, and a surprising new finding from Rockefeller University, recently published in Genes and Dev...
American Chemical Society to recognize breakthrough 1963 chemistry discovery
A discovery by a Rockefeller University chemist that enabled the rapid synthesis of peptides and proteins — and garnered a Nobel Prize in 1984 — will be honored Monday by the American Chemical Society. The presentation of the Citation for Chemical Breakthroughs will be part of a daylong scientif...
RNA map gives first comprehensive understanding of alternative splicing
It’s biology's version of the director’s cut. In much the same way that numerous films could be stitched together from a single reel of raw footage, a molecular process called alternative splicing enables a single gene to produce multiple proteins. Now a new RNA map, created by a team of researc...
Chronic stress effects attention by altering neuronal response in the brain
Anxiety and depression can make a person feel as if he’s battling his own brain, complete with wounds and scars. Traumatic events — war, divorce, the death of a loved one — can trigger these disorders, and scientists are just beginning to clarify the biological connection. Now, working neuron ...
Starr Foundation to give Rockefeller $50 million to support collaborations
A $50 million gift from the Starr Foundation, announced this week, will be used to create the Starr Fund for Collaborative Science at The Rockefeller University. The fund will promote and enhance scientific exchange and shared knowledge, the key objectives of President Paul Nurse’s strategic visi...
Mary Francis Lyons to receive Rockefeller's Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
The third annual Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, an international award to recognize the accomplishments of outstanding women scientists, will be presented to British geneticist Mary Frances Lyon on November 2. The prize, awarded by Rockefeller University, was established by Paul Greengard, Rockef...
Rockefeller University researchers decipher the shape of a sodium/potassium ion pump
Proteins studding the surface of cell membranes are vital to the cell, transmitting signals and maintaining equilibrium by moving charged molecules — ions — from one side to the other. Some of these proteins even use energy by acting as pumps, specialized channels with gates that strictly open o...
Study of birds suggests method of learning affects how the brain adds neurons
Teaching may be the world’s most noble profession. But new research from Fernando Nottebohm’s Rockefeller University laboratory shows that, in birds, the presence of a teacher may actually limit mental flexibility. Thirty days after they are born, male zebra finches start to imitate and learn t...
Study of hair follicles leads researchers to a key stem cell protein
With all the excitement over what stem cells can become, a few basic questions tend to be overlooked: Where do they come from? And how do they survive? They are important questions, and the answer has relevance to potential stem cell therapies and to cancer. In a recent paper in Science, Rockefel...
HIV gets a makeover: A few adjustments to the AIDS virus could alter the course of research
The slow pace of AIDS research can be pinned, in no small part, on something akin to the square-peg-round-hole conundrum. The HIV-1 virus won’t replicate in monkey cells, so researchers use a monkey virus — known as SIVmac, or the macaque version of simian immunodeficiency virus — to test pote...
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