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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 ...
New Innovator Award goes to cancer researcher Sohail Tavazoie
Sohail Tavazoie, Leon Hess Assistant Professor and head of Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology, is one of this year’s recipients of the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award. The prestigious five-year grant will fund Tavazoie’s work in elucid...
Rockefeller virologists and MIT tissue engineers receive $5.8 million NIH grant to study hepatitis
Scientists studying hepatitis at Rockefeller University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will receive a $5.8 million grant to study hepatitis infection under the National Institutes of Health’s inaugural Transformative R01 grant program, a groundbreaking initiative designed to encour...
New model suggests how the brain might stay in balance
The human brain is made up of 100 billion neurons — live wires that must be kept in delicate balance to stabilize the world’s most magnificent computing organ. Too much excitement and the network will slip into an apoplectic, uncomprehending chaos. Too much inhibition and it will flatline. A new...
Elaine Fuchs receives National Medal of Science
Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and head of the Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at Rockefeller University, has been named a recipient of the National Medal of Science, the White House announced today. The medal is the nation’s highest scientific honor. Fuchs,...
Two Rockefeller scientists named finalists for Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
Two Rockefeller scientists — Associate Professor and head of laboratory Shai Shaham and Postdoctoral Fellow Sreekanth H. Chalasani — have been named finalists in the third annual Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists competition. Established by the New York Academy of Sciences and the Blavatnik ...
To better control Chagas disease, focus funds more efficiently, scientists say
One widespread approach to controlling insect-borne infectious diseases is controlling the populations of insects that cause the infections. In the case of Chagas disease, a chronic infection of 10 million people worldwide with no available cures or vaccines, it’s the “kissing bug” that public...
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