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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...
Research defines dendritic cell lineage
Dendritic cells were discovered more than 30 years ago, but their pedigree has never been fully charted. They were known to be key immune system cells born in bone marrow, but their adolescence remained a mystery, their path to infection-fighting adulthood confused. Now, in experiments published ...
Rockefeller receives new $4.8 million state grant to fund stem cell research
Rockefeller University, which has New York state’s oldest research program devoted to understanding the biology of human embryonic stem cells, will receive $4.8 million from the state to establish new facilities for studying the molecular basis of how stem cells are maintained and how they differ...
A natural approach for HIV vaccine
For 25 years, researchers have tried and failed to develop an HIV vaccine that will generate antibodies to kill the virus before it takes hold. Only four “super antibodies” have been discovered that might do the job, but they have proved impossible to induce in people so far. Now, in research pu...
Scientists discover master regulator of motor neuron firing
When the Human Genome Project was complete, DNA bowed out of the limelight and gave way to RNA as a major player in genetic regulation. Now, findings at Rockefeller University mirror this ideological shift, revealing that one of the most important physiological events in the body — the wiring of ...
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