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Researchers create the first model of the DNA ‘replication fork’
Human cells make new copies of their DNA billions of times each day, a crucial process upon which life itself depends. However, scientists do not fully understand how cells unzip the double-stranded DNA molecule before replicating both halves of it. New work at Rockefeller may help change that. F...
Nat Immunol 2014 Jul 21
Nature Immunology online: July 21, 2014 Type I and type II Fc receptors regulate innate and adaptive immunity Andrew Pincetic, Stylianos Bournazos, David J DiLillo, Jad Maamary, Taia T. Wang, Rony Dahan, Benjamin-Maximillian Fiebiger and Jeffrey V. Ravetch
Cell 158, 300–313
Cell 158, 300–313 Crosstalk between Muscularis Macrophages and Enteric Neurons Regulates Gastrointestinal Motility Paul Andrew Muller, Balázs Koscsó, Gaurav Manohar Rajani, Korey Stevanovic, Marie-Luise Berres, Daigo Hashimoto, Arthur Mortha, Marylene Leboeuf, Xiu-Min Li, Daniel Mucida, E. Richa...
In the News 7/16/14
Dialing Back Stress With A Bubble Bath, Beach Trip And Bees   "Stress raises our heart rate and ramps our immune systems to prepare for injury and danger. 'The problem is if we don't turn those responses off efficiently when the danger is over ... they can cause damage,' [Bruce] McEwen says."
New faculty member uses genetic sequencing to investigate childhood brain disease
Joseph Gleeson, a neurogeneticist who hunts down genes responsible for devastating neurodevelopmental disorders, has joined The Rockefeller University and has established the Laboratory of Pediatric Brain Diseases. Gleeson, formerly a professor at the University of California, San Diego, is one o...
Nature Cell Biology online July 13, 2014
Nature Cell Biology online July 13, 2014 Par3-mInsc and Gαi3 cooperate to promote oriented epidermal cell divisions through LGN Scott E. Williams, Lyndsay A. Ratliff, Maria Pia Postiglione, Juergen A. Knoblich and Elaine Fuchs
In the News - Ars Technica - 7/11/14
3D printing used to control stem cell differentiation   Scientists from the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology at Rockefeller University are using principles from geometry to control the patterns through which [human embryonic stem cells] develop.
In the News - Daily Mail UK - Tavazoie
How spread of breast cancer could be stopped "Professor Sohail Tavazoie, who led the research, said: ‘If we learn more about how this regulation works, we may in the future be able to generate drugs that prevent this protein from triggering metastatic disease.’"
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Scientists Join the World of Crowdfunding   “'But science has yet to gain Veronica Mars status,' notes Jeanne Garbarino, director of science outreach at Rockefeller University in New York, who has used crowdfunding and informally advised others. Instead, scientific projects tend to be far more ...
Nature online: July 9, 2014
Nature online: July 9, 2014 Metastasis-suppressor transcript destabilization through TARBP2 binding of mRNA hairpins | Newswire Hani Goodarzi, Steven Zhang, Colin G. Buss, Lisa Fish, Saeed Tavazoie and Sohail F. Tavazoie
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