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Speakers named for Evolution Symposium
“From RNA to Humans: A Symposium on Evolution” will be held May 1 and 2 on the Rockefeller University campus. Experts from institutions across the world will speak on subjects from the RNA world hypothesis to the development of eukaryotes to the evolution of humans. The speakers are:May 1 Sessi...
Milestones
Awarded: C. David Allis, the 2008 ASBMB-Merck Award, from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The award, which includes $5,000, recognizes outstanding contributions to research in biochemistry and molecular biology. Dr. Allis, head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology a...
Brains are hardwired to act according to the Golden Rule
Wesley Autrey, a black construction worker, a Navy veteran and 55-year-old father of two, didn’t know the young man standing beside him. But when he had a seizure on the subway platform and toppled onto the tracks, Autrey jumped down after him and shielded him with his body as a train bore down o...
Chemical in bug spray works by masking human odors
Fifty years have passed since the United States Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Army invented DEET to protect soldiers from disease-transmitting insects (and, in the process, made camping trips and barbecues more pleasant for the rest of us civilians). But despite decades of research, scie...
Neuroscientist Gerald Fischbach named visiting professor
A neuroscientist who spent his scientific career studying how connections between brain cells form — and who currently helps form connections between researchers studying autism — has been appointed a visiting professor at Rockefeller University. Fischbach, the second visiting professor to be na...
Specialized natural killer cells in human tonsils pack a punch
Tonsils are a source of sore throats and an excuse for ice cream. But they also provide an important protective service, their immune-cell-rich tissue acting as the body’s first defense against the germs about to be swallowed or inhaled. Researchers have known that tonsils are packed with B cells...
Rockefeller bacteriologist wins Dart/NYU Award
Emil C. Gotschlich, head of Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis, is one of three winners of this year’s Dart/NYU Biotechnology Achievement Awards. Administered by the Biotechnology Study Center of New York University School of Medicine, the Dart/NYU Awards recognize the...
Nanoscale tool allows scientists to study membrane proteins one at a time
In biology, as in construction, it’s all about having tools that fit the job. Researchers at Rockefeller University have now created a tiny tool, more than 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair, capable of encasing single membrane proteins from living cells. The new system, which...
President Emeritus Frederick Seitz dies at 96
Frederick Seitz, president emeritus of The Rockefeller University and a former president of the National Academy of Sciences, died Sunday, March 2 in New York. He was 96. A distinguished physicist and educator who held key government posts for over three decades, Seitz received the National Medal...
microRNA-203 helps build skin's protective barrier
Every minute, 30,000 of our outermost skin cells die so that we can live. When they do, new cells migrate from the inner layer of the skin to the surface of it, where they form a tough protective barrier. In a series of elegant experiments in mice, researchers at Rockefeller University have now d...
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