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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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Researchers find how leprosy bacterium selects and attacks nerves

Mode of invasion may provide clues to the early events of other neurological diseases Researchers at Rockefeller University who study the bacterium that causes leprosy say they have identified a component on the microbe’s surface that allows it to specifically select and attack the peripheral ner...
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Rockefeller University Computational Biologist Receives Presidential Early Career Award

Theresa Gaasterland, Ph.D., a computational biologist at The Rockefeller University, was one of 20 National Science Foundation-supported researchers named by President Clinton as recipients of the fifth annual Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest hon...
Awards and Honors

Rockefeller University Computational Biologist Receives Presidential Early Career Award

Theresa Gaasterland, Ph.D., a computational biologist at The Rockefeller University, was one of 20 National Science Foundation-supported researchers named by President Clinton as recipients of the fifth annual Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest hon...
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Rockefeller University Neurobiologist Paul Greengard wins 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Shares Award with Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel

Second Consecutive Medicine Prize Awarded to a Rockefeller University Scientist For more about his prize-winning research, click Here Paul Greengard, Ph.D., Vincent Astor Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University, has won the 200...
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Five New York City Research Institutions Collaborate to Study 3-D Structures of Proteins

$4.5 Million Grant from NIH Will Help to Turn Genomic Knowledge into Promising Drug Targets In the wake of the completion of the human genome sequencing project, five New York research institutions have joined together in a collaborative effort to turn that knowledge into promising drug targets. ...
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Scientists Discover Why Experimental Leukemia Drug, STI-571, is Effective

A drug called STI-571, now being tested in clinics to treat a rare form of leukemia, selectively blocks a mutant enzyme that causes the disease without harming its molecular cousins. Reporting in the Sept. 15 issue of Science, a team of researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at The ...
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Researchers Identify Candidate Human Pheromone Receptor Gene

A team of researchers from The Rockefeller University in New York and the Yale University School of Medicine has identified for the first time a candidate pheromone receptor gene in humans. The findings, reported in the September issue of Nature Genetics, may shed new light on the molecular basis...
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Researchers Find Key to Tuberculosis Persistence in the Body

Discovery provides hints for foiling world's No. 1 infectious killer The tuberculosis bacterium requires a specific enzyme to cause persistent infection, a consortium of researchers at Rockefeller University and three other institutions have found. The discovery suggests that targeting the enzyme...
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Rockefeller University Professor Emeritus, Dr. Abraham Pais, Dies at 82

Professor Emeritus, Dr. Abraham Pais, died Friday evening in Copenhagen. A theoretical physicist of international renown, Dr. Pais became a member of the faculty in 1963, when the university was still known as The Rockefeller Institute.
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