Located in the surface membrane of all animals’ cells, sodium-potassium pumps keep cells and the animals that contain them in working order. Among other things, their efforts underlie nerve signals, heart beats and muscle contractions. But as ubiquitous and essential as these pumps are, new resea...

Nature Chemical Biology online: March 30, 2014 Lysine 2-hydroxyisobutyrylation is a widely distributed active histone mark Lunzhi Dai, Chao Peng, Emilie Montellier, Zhike Lu, Yue Chen, Haruhiko Ishii, Alexandra Debernardi, Thierry Buchou, Sophie Rousseaux, Fulai Jin, Benjamin R. Sabari, Zhiyou De...

Science for the Benefit of Parents at The Rockefeller University   "Where can you find dozens of parents in a room with Nobel prize-winning scientists? At The Rockefeller University's one-of-a-kind Parents and Science initiative. Launched in 2007, the initiative helps parents learn more about res...

Titia de Lange, a cell biologist who studies how the ends of chromosomes are protected from damage, will be honored with the Canada Gairdner International Award, given for significant discoveries in medical science. de Lange, who is Leon Hess Professor and head of the Laboratory of Cell Biology a...

Science 343: 1370-1372 Humans can discriminate more than 1 trillion olfactory stimuli C. Bushdid, M. O. Magnasco, L. B. Vosshall and A. Keller

Your nose can smell at least 1 trillion scents   "As [Leslie] Vosshall put it: 'The world is always changing. Plants are evolving new smells. Perfume companies are making new scents. You might move to some part of the world where you’ve never encountered the fruits and vegetables and flowers tha...

The human sense of smell does not get the respect it deserves, new research suggests. In an experiment led by Andreas Keller, of Rockefeller’s Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, researchers tested volunteers’ ability to distinguish between complex mixtures of scents. Based on the sensitiv...

51%: The Women’s Perspective   "Dr. Cori Bargmann of Rockefeller University studies how biology, our genes and the environment we live in can affect the way we act. She is especially interested in understanding social behaviors. Believe it or not, she studies worms to examine the underlying biol...

Molecular Psychiatry online: March 11, 2014 Preliminary evidence that early reduction in p11 levels in natural killer cells and monocytes predicts the likelihood of antidepressant response to chronic citalopram P. Svenningsson, L. Berg, D. Matthews, D. F. Ionescu, E. M. Richards, M. J. Niciu, A. ...

Nora Pencheva, a graduate fellow in Sohail Tavazoie’s Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology, will receive a Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, one of the country’s most prestigious graduate student prizes. The award is given by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and recognizes ou...