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AI holds enormous potential for the biomedical sciences. To get there, scientists are addressing challenges around trustworthiness, training data, and tool design.

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An artistic rendition of Mtb transcription. (credit: Andrew Tivon)
A new method reveals hidden rules of gene control
A new cell-free genomics framework isolates the primary impacts of transcription factors and establishes tuberculosis as a model for understanding how genes are regulated.
As New York endured severe snowstorms and its coldest winter in decades, the Plant Operations team kept science moving at Rockefeller's historic campus. (Credit: Lori Chertoff)
Even during one of the city's coldest winters, our science never takes a snow day
As New York endured severe snowstorms and its coldest winter in decades, the Plant Operations team kept science moving at Rockefeller's historic campus.
Scientists have discovered that a protein once thought to simply help load a factor necessary for the copying of DNA, plays a key role in ensuring fast and reliable replication—an insight that could inform research into cancer and other diseases. (Credit: O'Donnell lab)
A protein thought to play a supporting role in DNA replication actually facilitates the whole process
Scientists have discovered that a protein once thought to simply help load a factor necessary for the copying of DNA, actually plays a key role in ensuring fast and reliable replication—an insight ...
A 3D rendering of a chikungunya virus-like particle. (Credit: NIAID) 
In rare cases, autoantibodies can cause severe reactions to a live-attenuated virus Chikungunya vaccine that has been discontinued in the U.S.
A new study shows that preexisting autoantibodies in a small subset of the population can allow weakened vaccine viruses to escape control, explaining some adverse events tied to this one kind of C...

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The publishing rules for NIH-supported research have changed. Here’s what to know
What is a scientist who wants to stay in the good graces of both federal funders and private publishers to do?
The value of publishing negative data
Scientific publishing has a bias against negative results and that hurts science, says Tim Fessenden, editor of Life Science Alliance, a publication of Rockefeller University Press. Here’s how jour...
Rockefeller tops an international ranking of research impact
According to the 2025 CWTS Leiden Ranking Open edition of over 2,800 universities from 120 countries, Rockefeller has the highest percentage of most frequently cited scientific publications.

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Svetlana Mojsov is named the King Faisal Prize Winner
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