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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...
Sniff study suggests humans can distinguish more than 1 trillion scents
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...
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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
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 wins 2014 Weintraub Graduate Student Award
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...
Science 343: 1151-1154 (14-3-7)
Science 343: 1151-1154 Long-acting integrase inhibitor protects macaques from intrarectal simian/human immunodeficiency virus Chasity D. Andrews, William R. Spreen, Hiroshi Mohri, Lee Moss, Susan Ford, Agegnehu Gettie, Kasi Russell-Lodrigue, Rudolf P. Bohm, Cecilia Cheng-Mayer, Zhi Hong, Martin M...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: March 5, 2014
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: March 5, 2014 Molecular adaptations of striatal spiny projection neurons during levodopa-induced dyskinesia Myriam Heiman, Adrian Heilbut,Veronica Francardo, Ruth Kulicke, Robert J.  Fenster, Eric D. Kolaczyk, Jill P. Mesirov, Dalton J. ...
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Injections providing protection against AIDS in monkeys, studies find   "Two studies [one by David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at Rockefeller University] each found 100 percent protection in monkeys that got monthly injections of antiretroviral drugs, and there was evid...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111: 3614-3619 (14-3-4)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111: 3614-3619 Mechanosensitivity is mediated directly by the lipid membrane in TRAAK and TREK1 K+ channels Stephen G. Brohawn, Zhenwei Su and Roderick MacKinnon
Adjunct faculty member Kayo Inaba receives L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science award
Kayo Inaba, known for her work on dendritic cells, is being honored as the Asia-Pacific recipient of the L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science award, which supports eminent women in science throughout the world who are working in the life and physical sciences. Inaba is an adjunct faculty member in Mic...
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