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Diabetes Researchers Find that a Regulator of Insulin Also Regulates Cholesterol Levels

Researchers in Markus Stoffel's laboratory of Metabolic Diseases have found that that a transcription factor called TCF1 not only regulates insulin production in the pancreas but also controls the regulation of cholesterol. In a paper published in the April issue of Nature Genetics, Stoffel's tea...
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Rockefeller Researchers Identify Defense System in Plants

Protein found to confer resistance to drought Researchers at The Rockefeller University have discovered that an experimental plant may harbor an additional line of defense against drought, once it has left the safety of its seed. The work suggests that a well-known plant hormone delays the growth...
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Researchers Light the Path of Brain's Feeding Circuit in Mice

A novel technique that uses a virus tagged with a green-glowing jellyfish protein has enabled scientists to visualize the feeding circuit in mice. The method may be useful in studies of other complex circuits in the brain. The findings are reported in the March 30 issue of Science by a team of re...
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Researchers Discover Promoter of Nerve Tissue in Frogs

Findings might one day lead to a way to regenerate brain cells for humans Researchers at The Rockefeller University have discovered that a protein known to be involved in the early development of embryos indirectly leads to the formation of nerve tissue in frogs. The findings, reported in the Mar...
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Researchers Find Novel Way to Kill Streptococci Bacteria

Use of microbe’s natural enemy may offer alternative to antibiotics Researchers at The Rockefeller University have discovered a powerful new way to destroy on contact the bacteria that cause strep throat, flesh-eating disease and a variety of other infections. The technique, which may not cause...
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Researchers Identify an Enzyme That Regulates the Action of Chronic Cocaine

New Finding Could Have Major Implications for Treatment of Addiction Scientists have found that an enzyme called Cdk5 regulates the action of chronic cocaine in the brain. In a paper published in the March Nature, members of Paul Greengard's Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience and...
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Rockefeller University President Arnold Levine Receives First Albany Medical Center Prize

$500,000 award is largest annual prize in medicine offered in United States Arnold J. Levine, Ph.D., president of The Rockefeller University, is the first recipient of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. Levine is recognized for his discovery of the p53 tumor supp...
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Many Immune Cells Are Fine-tuned to Prevent "Friendly Fire"

Body salvages cells by altering genes during halt in development About one-quarter of the body's antibodies are produced by immune cells that have had their genetic code revised during a halt in their development, scientists at Rockefeller University and three other institutions have found. The s...
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Rockefeller and Aaron Diamond Researcher David D. Ho Receives Presidential Citizens Medal

Rockefeller University Professor David D. Ho, M.D., scientific director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (ADARC), will receive the Presidential Citizens Medal from President Clinton today in a ceremony at the White House. Ho is one of 28 recipients being recognized for "remarkable servic...
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Researchers Identify Key to Genetic Replication in Hepatitis C Virus

Finding in Cell Culture Should Boost Studies of Virus and Vaccine Design Researchers at Rockefeller University and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified mutations in a protein of certain strains of hepatitis C virus (HCV) that allow these strains to replicate more ...
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