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Resident protection

First "live" imaging of specialized immune system cells reveals new clues about body’s security system To keep the body safe, the immune system enlists more than one form of protection. A circulating task force of immune system cells monitors the body’s periphery, and sends information back to ...

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Yale Environment 360 The New Story of Stuff: Can We Consume Less? "Optimists such as Jesse Ausubel, director of the Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller University in New York, see a long-term and unstoppable trend that is the logical outcome of what economists call the environmen...

Cell online: November 30, 2011

Cell online: November 30, 2011 Structural Basis for Promoter −10 Element Recognition by the Bacterial RNA Polymerase σ Subunit Andrey Feklistov and Seth A. Darst We determined crystal structures of σ domain 2 bound to single-stranded DNA bearing -10 element sequences. The structures, along w...

Nature online: November 27, 2011

Nature online: November 27, 2011 GlcNAcylation of Histone H2B Facilitates its Monoubiquitination Ryoji Fujiki, Waka Hashiba, Hiroki Sekine, Atsushi Yokoyama, Toshihiro Chikanishi, Saya Ito, Yuuki Imai, Jaehoon Kim, Housheng Hansen He, Katsuhide Igarashi, Jun Kanno, Fumiaki Ohtake, Hirochika Kitag...
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Holiday party is December 8. After a two-year hiatus, the universitywide holiday celebration is back. All are invited to Weiss Café from 3:30 to 5 p.m. for food and beverages. Happy anniversary. At an afternoon reception on October 27, the university celebrated employment anniversaries for 147...
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Nobel laureate Ralph Steinman dies at 68

Ralph Steinman, an immunologist who spent his entire career at Rockefeller and died just days before the Nobel Prize committee announced his name, passed away on September 30 after a four-and-a-half year battle with pancreatic cancer. Dr. Steinman, who discovered dendritic cells with Rockefeller ...
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Small 2011 surplus to help plug future deficits

University’s $325 million operating budget closes with $1 million to spare by ZACH VEILLEUX Strong fundraising, access to federal stimulus funds and better-than-expected royalty income led the university to close the 2011 fiscal year with a $1.1 million surplus, but the approved 2012 budget is in...
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University helps found New York Genome Center

The Rockefeller University, with 10 of the country’s leading medical and research institutions, has joined the New York Genome Center (NYGC), which will become one of the largest genomic facilities in North America. The consortium establishes an unprecedented, large-scale collaborative venture in...
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Flexner and Welch Halls now fully gutted

Although the removal of concealed asbestos caused some delays last spring, the reconstruction of Flexner and Welch Halls is still on schedule, with work on both projects expected to be complete by the end of fall 2012. In Flexner, framing and utility work (top) is now underway on several floors...
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New planters enhance pedestrian safety

Hundreds of pedestrians enter campus via the 66th Street gate each day. So do more than 200 cars, several dozen delivery vehicles and a steady stream of bicycles. It’s a lot of traffic for a ten-foot wide driveway and two narrow sidewalks. In response to complaints about conflicts between the...
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