François Jacob will speak on "Biology and Culture" Seeking to honor that rare individual in whom the two cultures of science and art are combined, The Rockefeller University will present François Jacob, the Nobel Prize-winning molecular geneticist and highly acclaimed author of three books on sci...

Week-long series of events commemorates "single most important finding in biology of the 20th century" Fifty years to the day of the publication of the historic paper that showed that genes are made of DNA--considered by many to be the single most important scientific finding in biology of the 20...

New Therapy Could Have Worldwide Impact A team of researchers led by Dr. A. Kappas of The Rockefeller University has developed a new drug that effectively controls the development of jaundice in preterm newborns. The drug, called SnMP, blocks the production of bilirubin, the yellow pigment that l...