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Disrupting sleep causes problems for the body and brain
Anyone who has pulled an all-nighter or flown across an ocean knows you can’t mess up your sleep schedule without unpleasant consequences. New research in mice now shows that throwing off natural circadian rhythms over the long term can seriously disturb the body and brain, causing weight gain an...
2009 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize goes to pioneering geneticist
The recipient of the 2009 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize is Australian geneticist Suzanne Cory, professor and former director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Created to recognize the accomplishments of outstanding female scientists and administered by The Rockefeller Un...
Rockefeller postdoc named finalist for Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology
Max Heiman, a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University, has been named a finalist in the eighth annual Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology competition. The international prize, established in 2002 by Eppendorf and Sciencemagazine, recognizes the most outstanding neurobiological resear...
Checkered history of mother and daughter cells explains cell cycle differences
When mother and daughter cells are created each time a cell divides, they are not exactly alike. They have the same set of genes, but differ in the way they regulate them. New research now reveals that these regulatory differences between mother and daughter cells are directly linked to how they ...
Elaine Fuchs to receive 2010 L'Oréal-UNESCO prize for women scientists
Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and head of the Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at Rockefeller University, will be the North American recipient of a 2010 L'Oréal-UNESCO Award in the Life Sciences, which recognizes exceptional women scientists. Fuchs is one of fi...
Immunologist Michel Nussenzweig elected to Institute of Medicine
Immunologist Michel C. Nussenzweig, head of Rockefeller University's Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, has beenelected to the Institute of Medicine, the health and medicine branch of the National Academy of Sciences. Announced today at the institute's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., Nussenz...
Transgenic songbirds provide new tool to understand the brain
You can learn a lot from an animal. By manipulating the DNA of mice, flies, frogs and worms, scientists have discovered a great deal about the genes and molecules behind many of life’s essential processes. These basic functions often work about the same in people as they do in “model” animals....
Obesity researcher wins Keio Medical Science Prize
Jeffrey M. Friedman, Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and head of Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, has been named a recipient of the 14th annual Keio Medical Science Prize, announced today by Keio University. Recognized for his pioneering work in the genetics of obesity and...
“Promiscuous” protein interactions found in the nuclear pore complex
In higher organisms, cells are very selective about what passes in and out of their nuclei, where the genes reside. This selectivity helps protect the DNA and is the job of machines that stud the envelope of the nucleus, called nuclear pore complexes. These gatekeepers have proved largely inscrut...
Clinical study to probe genetic link to Salmonella diseases
Depending on your genes, Salmonella can mean a lot more than food poisoning. In a new clinical study, researchers at The Rockefeller University Hospital are narrowing in on the genetic link that predisposes a person to a set of complications known as severe nontyphoidal salmonellosis (SNTS). The ...
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