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Jeff Friedman to receive King Faisal and BBVA prizes
Jeffrey M. Friedman, the Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, will be the recipient of two international scientific awards announced this week. The King Faisal International Prize in Medicine, from the Saudi Arabian King Faisal Foundation, and the BBVA Fr...
Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences awarded to Mike Young and colleagues
Michael W. Young, Richard and Jeanne Fisher Professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetics, has been awarded the twelfth annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences along with his colleagues, Jeffrey Hall and Michael Rosbash of Brandeis University. The researchers are being honored for their disc...
Ant executions serve a higher purpose, research shows
Natural selection can be an agonizingly long process. Some organisms have a way of taking matters into their own hands, or — in the case of the ant species Cerapachys biroi — mandibles. Researchers at The Rockefeller University and University of Paris 13 have found that when a C. biroi ant step...
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Scarred for life? The biology of childhood hardship "Elsewhere, research by one of us, Bruce McEwen, has closed in on how pre- and postnatal stress affects a complex set of interactions between the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland and the adrenal glands (the HPA axis). These are all part of the ...
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Food Fraud? Watchdog Group Raises Concerns   "High school students supervised by New York's Rockefeller University found alarming results in testing done over the last three years. Sixteen percent of the grocery store food they DNA tested, from expensive sheep's milk cheese that had only cow DNA ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: January 22, 2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: January 22, 2013 Domain-swapped chain connectivity and gated membrane access in a Fab-mediated crystal of the human TRAAK K+ channel Stephen G. Brohawn, Ernest B. Campbell and Roderick MacKinnon
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: January 22, 2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: January 22, 2013 Domain-swapped chain connectivity and gated membrane access in a Fab-mediated crystal of the human TRAAK K+ channel Stephen G. Brohawn, Ernest B. Campbell and Roderick MacKinnon
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Epigenetics: How Our Experiences Affect Our Offspring   "We were all brought up to think the genome was it," said Rockefeller University molecular biologist C. David Allis. "It's really been a watershed in understanding that there is something beyond the genome."
Nature Immunology online: January 20, 2013
Nature Immunology online: January 20, 2013 Transcriptional reprogramming of mature CD4(+) helper T cells generates distinct MHC class II-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes Daniel Mucida, Mohammad Mushtaq Husain, Sawako Muroi, Femke van Wijk, Ryo Shinnakasu, Yoshinori Naoe, Bernardo Sgarbi Reis, Y...
Nature Immunology online: January 20, 2013
Nature Immunology online: January 20, 2013 Transcriptional reprogramming of mature CD4(+) helper T cells generates distinct MHC class II-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes Daniel Mucida, Mohammad Mushtaq Husain, Sawako Muroi, Femke van Wijk, Ryo Shinnakasu, Yoshinori Naoe, Bernardo Sgarbi Reis, Y...
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