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Rockefeller University vaccine researchers selected for grant from Foundation for NIH

A team of researchers led by Rockefeller University immunologist Ralph M. Steinman, M.D., has been selected for a grant offer from the Foundation for the NIH (FNIH) of $14 million to support the design of novel vaccines that stimulate multiple components of the body’s immune response, including t...

David Rockefeller pledges $100 million to Rockefeller University

Largest gift in University's history will support innovative science, graduate program New York, NY, June 9, 2005 — Paul Nurse, Ph.D., president of The Rockefeller University, announced today that David Rockefeller, honorary chairman and life trustee of the University's Board of Trustees, has ple...
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Researchers create infectious hepatitis C virus in a test tube

Method enables scientists to study all stages of virus' life cycle A team of researchers led by scientists at The Rockefeller University has produced for the first time an infectious form of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in laboratory cultures of human cells. The finding, reported in the June 9 iss...
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Worming our way into the brain

Rockefeller scientists find that studying glial cells in the roundworm C. elegans may provide insight into a variety of human brain diseases. The key to understanding our brains may lie within a one-millimeter long worm, new research from Rockefeller University indicates. Reporting in the June is...
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Rockefeller University scientist elected fellow of Royal Society

David Gadsby, Ph.D., professor and head of the Laboratory of Cardiac and Membrane Physiology at the Rockefeller University, was elected a fellow of the Royal Society today for his research into how ion transporters function, and specifically for furthering our understanding of the origins of cyst...
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One gene links newborn neurons with those that die in diseases such as Alzheimer's

Naturally replaced neurons may hold the key to understanding processes of neurodegeneration In certain parts of the brain, cells called neurons go through a cycle of death and replenishment. New research from Rockefeller University's Fernando Nottebohm, Ph.D., shows that these replaceable neurons...

The Starr Foundation funds tri-institution stem cell research

New tri-institutional collaboration aimed at realizing the potential of stem cell research Three New York City biomedical research institutions — The Rockefeller University, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) — will receive $50 millio...
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Beyond epigenetics

Rockefeller scientists show nuclear protein Ezh2 helps establish previously unknown signaling pathway in cells Since 2001, scientists have wrestled with the discovery that there are fewer genes in humans than biological processes linked to those genes over the course of a human lifespan. One way ...
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For young canaries learning their song, freedom in youth gives way to rules in adulthood

For some kinds of birds, learning to sing is as much a part of growing up as learning to talk is for human children. They listen to their parents and other adults, memorize, imitate, practice, and in time are able to chirp a tune characteristic of their species that will help attract a mate. Now ...
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Two Rockefeller scientists elected to National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 72 new members this morning, including two Rockefeller University scientists: C. David Allis, Ph.D., Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics, and Charles M. Rice, Ph.D., Maurice R. an...
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