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Key to blocking influenza virus may lie in a cell’s own machinery

Viruses are masters of outsourcing, entrusting their fundamental function – reproduction – to the host cells they infect. But it turns out this highly economical approach also creates vulnerability. Researchers at Rockefeller University and their collaborators have found an unexpected way the...
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Drug-resistant bacteria lurk in subway stations, high school students discover

Forget the five-million plus commuters and untold number of rats – many of the living things crowded into the New York City subway system are too small to see. An interest in the more menacing among these microbes led high school student Anya Dunaif, a participant in Rockefeller’s Summer Science...

In the News - Popular Science - Bargmann

Meet a neurologist who’s mapping the human brain   "In the past century of neuroscience, there’s been a lot of analysis of individual neurons and synapses, and, more recently, imaging of the whole brain. But we scientists think everything of substance happens in between these two scales. It’...
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Jeffrey Ravetch wins Wolf Prize in Medicine

Jeffrey V. Ravetch, head of the Leonard Wagner Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology at Rockefeller University, was named a recipient of the 2015 Wolf Prize in Medicine on Friday (January 30) and will receive the award at a ceremony in Tel Aviv in May. He shares the prize, which include...

In the News - GlobeAndMail - Nussenzweig

HIV: Latent reservoir of virus in rare immune cells could help develop cure "Research at Rockefeller University suggests that a quiet body of immune cells that do not divide could harbour a reserve of HIV virus, a potential target for therapies aimed at curing rather than managing the disease."
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Latent HIV may lurk in ‘quiet’ immune cells, research suggests

Drugs for HIV have become adept at suppressing infection, but they still can’t eliminate it. That’s because the medication in these pills doesn’t touch the virus’ hidden reserves, which lie dormant within infected white blood cells. Unlock the secrets of this pool of latent virus, scientists...

In the News - Huffington Post - Kreek

Dying to be free: The treatment for heroin addiction we aren’t using   “[Opiate addiction] 'alters multiple regions in the brain,' [Mary Jeanne] Kreek said, 'including those that regulate reward, memory and learning, stress responsivity, and hormonal response, as well as executive function whic...
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Research implicates metabolic process of the liver in the spread of colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer is a cancer on the move: about 50 percent of patients with the disease see their cancer spread, typically to the liver. By identifying genes that become activated in cancer cells that successfully travel — metastasize — to the liver, researchers at Rockefeller have implicated...
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Study detailing axonal death pathway may provide drug targets for neurodegenerative diseases

Axons connect neurons with each other to form the neural networks that underpin the vital functions of perception, motility, cognition, and memory. In many neurodegenerative disorders, from traumatic injury or toxic damage to diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease, axonal degenerati...

In the News - BBC News - Brady

Drugs in dirt: Scientists appeal for help "Dr. [Sean] Brady, head of the Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, said: 'We hope that efforts to map nature's microbial and chemical diversity will result in the discovery of both completely new medicines and better versions of existing me...
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