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New model of a nuclear pore complex is based on crystal structure of its key component
Everything that goes in and out of a cell’s nucleus must pass through one of its nuclear pores. In the second nuclear pore study to come out of Rockefeller University in as many months, researchers have determined the crystal structure of one of the pore’s main components and used it to propose ...
Rockefeller to receive state money for stem cell research
The Rockefeller University is one of 25 institutions to receive a combined $14.5 million from New York state to fund stem cell research and training. The funds, which are part of a multi-year $600 million initiative overseen by the newly created Empire State Stem Cell Board, will fund new shared ...
Altering the balance of immune-cell receptors could help treat cancer and autoimmune diseases
Dendritic cells are responsible for directing the body’s immune response, and they’re activated through receptors on their surfaces. Now, in research that may have implications for novel disease therapies, Rockefeller University scientists have shown that the balance of two different versions of...
Two forces of arousal converge on the "satiety center" of the brain
By pitting two forces — hunger and circadian rhythms — against each other, researchers at Rockefeller University have identified the region of the brain that first registers changes in food availability. The research, in mice, suggests that shifting the timing of a meal increases mental alertnes...
New method enables scientists to see smells
Animals and insects communicate through an invisible world of scents. By exploiting infrared technology, researchers at Rockefeller University just made that world visible. With the ability to see smells, these scientists now show that when fly larvae detect smells with both olfactory organs they...
Active mechanism locks in the size of cell's nucleus
Cells know that size matters, especially when it comes to the nucleus. In the early 1900s, German scientists first proposed that the size of a nucleus is always proportional to the size of its cell. Now, more than a century later, researchers at Rockefeller University show that an active mechanis...
Center for Clinical and Translational Science funds eight new pilot studies
The Rockefeller University Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) has announced the recipients of its 2008 Pilot Project grants. Eight Rockefeller researchers will each receive $25,000 from the center to fund early studies in translational science that, if successful, might lead to ...
Three biophysicists receive Burroughs Wellcome career awards
Three Rockefeller University scientists are among the 2008 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI): Dirk Albrecht, postdoctoral associate in Cori Bargmann’s Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, Maria Neimark Geffen, fellow at the Center for Studies in Physi...
Most carriers of Fanconi anemia genes are not at a higher risk of cancer
For almost 50 years, Fanconi anemia has been associated with leukemia. Not just among those who have the genetic disorder but among their family members, whose genes, they were told, made them highly susceptible to a variety of malignancies. But a new study to examine links between 13 specific Fa...
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