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Newly discovered protein kills Anthrax bacteria by exploding their cell walls

Not all biological weapons are created equal. They are separated into categories A through C, category A biological agents being the scariest: They are easy to spread, kill effectively and call for special actions by the pubic health system. One of these worrisome organisms is anthrax, which has ...
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Genetic data from an island population proves to be useful tool in understanding disease

With fewer than 4,000 residents, the genetically isolated Micronesian island of Kosrae, in the West Pacific, provides an ideal population in which to research heritability of disease. Over the last 12 years, Rockefeller University researchers have been collecting blood samples and other data from...
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Help for bleeding hearts: new research links a third protein to blood-clotting disorders

Studying receptors on the surface of blood platelets, sticky cells that cause blood to clot, has given one Rockefeller researcher new insight into potential causes and treatments for certain cardiovascular diseases. Barry Coller, David Rockefeller Professor and the university’s physician-in-chief...
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Researchers uncover a pathway linked to autoimmune disease

When a person’s immune cells lose the ability to distinguish “self” from “non-self,” they end up launching an attack on the body they’re supposed to protect. Exactly what happens to rob them of that ability has been the subject of decades of research. In a series of discoveries that has ...
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Lizard's 'third eye' sheds light on how vision evolved

A primitive third eye found in many types of lizards, used to detect changes in light and dark and to regulate the production of certain hormones, may help explain how vision evolved and how signals are transmitted from the eyes to the brain, according to new research by Rockefeller University sc...
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Researchers show laboratory hepatitis C strain is also infections in animal models

An important step in developing a treatment for viral diseases is for scientists to culture live viruses from infected patients, but the hepatitis C virus (HCV), a major cause of chronic and sometimes fatal liver disease, has proven to be particularly wily. For many years scientists have struggle...
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Paul Nurse to co-host Charlie Rose on avian flu

Rockefeller President Paul Nurse will make his second appearance on Charlie Rose tonight, when he co-hosts, with Rose, an hour-long discussion on the threat of avian flu. The show, which is to be the first in a series of science-themed Charlie Rose shows co-hosted with Nurse, will air on PBS tele...
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When mice choose mates, experience counts

Choosing a mate is a big decision. And, at least for mice, it’s one that is best made with input from one’s peers. In a series of experiments designed to help scientists understand the brain chemicals that guide mate selection, Don Pfaff and his colleagues exposed female mice to the odor of eit...
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Developing neurons reverse direction in absence of Wnt protein

There are 10 billion neurons in the human brain, with 10 trillion connections, and in this complex web, every bit of information must be routed along the correct path. But despite years of study, scientists don’t fully understand how the body forms the neural pathways that route that information....
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Aggravated assault: How adhesion proteins regulate skin inflammation

When it comes to skin, the tighter the better. To create an effective barrier, cells in the epidermal, or outermost, layer of the skin form very tight associations. But while strong links between skin cells protect the body from the world outside, new research from Rockefeller University shows th...
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