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Rockefeller University Hospital opens new Sleep Research Center
A good night’s sleep is good for your health, but the details have long been sketchy. Now, after decades of study into the relationship between sleep patterns and health in general, science is pointing to the often overlooked role of sleep in particular diseases — from cancer to diabetes to Park...
New nucleotide could revolutionize epigenetics
Anyone who studied a little genetics in high school has heard of adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine — the A,T,G and C that make up the DNA code. But those are not the whole story. The rise of epigenetics in the past decade has drawn attention to a fifth nucleotide, 5-methylcytosine (5-mC), th...
Parasite breaks its own DNA to avoid detection
The parasite Trypanosoma brucei, which causes African sleeping sickness, is like a thief donning a disguise. Every time the host’s immune cells get close to destroying the parasite, it escapes detection by rearranging its DNA and changing its appearance. Now, in research to appear in the advance ...
Rockefeller University Hospital opens clinical trial into statin-associated muscle complaints
The most widely prescribed class of drugs in the country, statins have helped millions of people lower their cholesterol and reduce their risk of heart attacks — but their side effects, including muscle pain and cramping, have proven to be something of a sore point for many patients. Now, researc...
Research defines neurons that control sociability in worms
Ants colonize. Fish shoal. Flamingos flock and caribou herd. Earth is populated by inherently social beings. Even lowly worms seek out the benefits of companionship. New research at The Rockefeller University has dissected the social proclivities of a model worm, identifying a single type of neur...
Harvard biochemist named visiting scholar
Jack Strominger, Harvard University biochemist and winner of the Lasker Award for discoveries involving immune system structures, has joined The Rockefeller University as a visiting scholar for the month of April. On sabbatical from his post in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard College ...
Scientists show how a neuron gets its shape
Ask a simple question, get a simple answer: When Abraham Lincoln was asked how long a man’s legs should be, he absurdly replied, “Long enough to reach the ground.” Now, by using a new microscopy technique to watch the growth of individual neurons in the microscopic roundworm Caenorhabditis el...
Sean Brady named HHMI Early Career Scientist
Sean F. Brady, assistant professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules at The Rockefeller University, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Early Career Scientist. The Early Career Scientist program, launched in 2008, was created to support the work...
Rockefeller neuroscientist applies basic science to health care reform
A self-described “molecular sociologist” is extending his basic research to the national policy debate on health care reform. Bruce McEwen, head of the Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, led a panel of scientific experts last month at the Institute of Medicine’s Summit on Integrative Medicine a...
Epigenetic mark guides stem cells toward their destiny
Not all stem cells are completely blank slates. Some, known as adult stem cells, have already partially embraced their fates and are capable of becoming only cells of a particular type of tissue. So how do these tissue-specific stem cells restrict their fate? In research to appear in the March 20...
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