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Clearing jams in the copy machinery
Bacteria and humans use a number of tools to direct perhaps the most important function in cells -- the accurate copying of DNA during cell division. New research published this week in Molecular Cell from the laboratory of Rockefeller University's Michael O'Donnell, a Howard Hughes Medical Insti...
Paul Nurse to receive Copley Medal
The Royal Society has chosen Rockefeller University President Paul Nurse to receive the prestigious Copley Medal, its premiere award. Nurse will be honored for his “contributions to cell biology in general and to the elucidation of the control of cell division.” The Copley Medal is the Royal So...
Architect selected for north campus 'bridging' building
An architect has been selected to design new laboratory buildings for the north end of the Rockefeller University campus, including the renovation of two existing structures and the construction of a new “bridging” building to connect them. The new structures are the centerpiece of the universit...
Humanity in transition
2005, Joel Cohen says, is the midpoint of a historic decade. Before this decade, young people always outnumbered older people; rural residents always outnumbered city dwellers; and the median number of women per child always exceeded two. By the end of this decade, none of this will ever be true ...
In flies, odorant receptors work together
Locating a bruised, three-day-old banana takes a keen sense of smell. Yet fruit flies have just 62 different odorant receptors – compared to a thousand or more that exist in humans. A new paper published this week by Rockefeller University researchers Leslie Vosshall and Elane Fishilevich shows h...
New gene in Fanconi anemia "explains" hallmark chromosomal instability
Surprising findings from just five patients has led to the first proof of how the rare disorder Fanconi anemia causes chromosomal instability. A team of international researchers, led by scientists at Rockefeller University, reports the findings in the September issue of Nature Genetics. The scie...
Rockefeller researchers show evidence of asymmetric cell division in mammalian skin
It took almost 10 years for Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Rockefeller University, to find a postdoctoral fellow who shared her curiosity for the direction of cell divisions in the skin. Then Terry Lechler, Ph.D., came along and the result is a new paper pu...
Never too much of a good thing
Changing levels of a single protein can produce many different outcomes An ongoing scientific argument surrounds the Wnt protein: Different research groups say that Wnt proteins are involved in cell differentiation, proliferation, fate determination, stem cell self-renewal and cancer. But which g...
Single stressful events bring about gradual change in brain structure
Commuting is never fun, and is almost always stressful, in part because we often have no control over what happens to us. But everyday we get in our car, or board the train or bus, and make our way to work, having become accustomed to this stress, not realizing that this stress may have a measura...
Protein destruction helps plants enter a different life stage
As a seed awakens and begins to sprout, it must make a decision: does it have everything it needs to grow, or should it wait for better conditions? The choice rests on the presence or absence of one protein, ABI3, and new research from the laboratory of Nam-Hai Chua, Ph.D., at Rockefeller Univers...
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