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Rockefeller University researchers shed light on brain disorder
Findings suggest new treatment for autoimmune neurological disease A rare but devastating neurological disorder may be caused partly by immune-system cells that are spurred into action against tumors elsewhere in the body and eventually attack the brain, Rockefeller University researchers report....
Rockefeller University researchers find molecule that controls the balance between bone creation and bone destruction
Discovery may have important implications for treating bone disease Researchers at The Howard Hughes Medical Institute at The Rockefeller University have identified a novel molecular mechanism by which a molecule called TRANCE controls the balance between bone formation and bone destruction. The ...
RU researchers find that waking experiences influence the brain's gene expression during REM sleep
Mammals spend a large portion of their lives sleeping. In addition to allowing the body to rest, sleep seems to play a role in the consolidation of daytime memories. A number of scientific observations have supported the idea that the brain is reactivated during sleep to process sensorimotor info...
Nobel Laureate Blobel to Give First Medicine Prize Lecture Live Online
The first live Webcasts of the Nobel Prize lectures will take place on Wed., Dec. 8, 1999. This year's laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Günter Blobel, M.D., Ph.D., of The Rockefeller University, will present his lecture, "Protein Targeting." DATE: Wed., Dec. 8, 1999 TIME: 8:50 a.m. EST (2:50 p...
Rockefeller University Cell Biologist, Günter Blobel, Wins 1999 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Rockefeller University cell biologist Günter Blobel, M.D., Ph.D., was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine today. Blobel, the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Professor at The Rockefeller University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, heads the Laboratory of Cell Biology....
Rockefeller Researcher Roderick MacKinnon Receives 1999 Lasker Award
Rockefeller University Professor Roderick MacKinnon, M.D., has been named a recipient of the 1999 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, the nation's most distinguished honor for outstanding contributions to basic and clinical medical research. Roderick Mackinnon, M.D. MacKinnon, head of Roc...
No Viral Rebound After Stopping Drugs: An Anomalous Group of HIV Patients
Immune response boosted by prior interruptions in therapy An unusual group of HIV-infected patients who stopped taking antiviral drugs yet continued to suppress HIV replication may have somehow boosted their immune response against the virus by temporary therapy interruptions, researchers from th...
Rockefeller and Aaron Diamond Researchers Say Resistance to HIV Drugs May Be Higher Than Previously Thought
Scientists say widespread analysis of virus strains should guide AIDS therapy A study of patients infected with the AIDS virus revealed that about one in six was carrying a strain that is resistant to at least one of the drugs targeting HIV, researchers report from the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research...
Rockefeller Researchers Produce 3-D Picture of DNA-reading Molecular Machine
Researchers at The Rockefeller University have determined the first three-dimensional structure of the cellular RNA polymerase (RNAP), a molecular machine that activates individual genes by transcribing, or reading out, the instructions encoded in their DNA. The structure, published in the Sept. ...
Researchers Propose New Theory to Explain How Visual Pigments are "Tuned"
Scientists from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at The Rockefeller University and from the University of California-Berkeley have proposed a new theory on how the human eye perceives colors. Using techniques of molecular biology and spectroscopy, the research, reported in the August is...
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