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Researchers discover unusual genetic mutation linked to adolescent liver cancer

In the race for better treatments and possible cures, rare diseases are often left behind. In a collaboration of researchers at The Rockefeller University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the New York Genome Center (NYGC), an unusual mutation has been found that is strongly linked to o...

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Teen helps scientists study her own rare disease   "Making that idea work required a lot of help from real scientists: Her father, [Sanford Simon], who runs a cellular biophysics lab at The Rockefeller University; her surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; and gene specialists at the ...

Research shows combination of sensory signals draw mosquitoes in for a bite

It may seem like mosquitoes will bite anything with a pulse, but they’re actually quite strategic in picking their victims. A new study from The Rockefeller University looked at the interaction of different sensory cues — carbon dioxide, heat and odor — that attract mosquitoes to humans, and f...

Cell 156: 1060-1071 Multimodal integration of carbon dioxide and other sensory cues drives mosquito attraction to humans Conor J. McMeniman, Román A. Corfas, Benjamin J. Matthews, Scott A. Ritchie and Leslie B. Vosshall

Cell 156: 986-1001 (14-2-27)

Cell 156: 986-1001 Broad-spectrum therapeutic suppression of metastatic melanoma through nuclear hormone receptor activation Nora Pencheva, Colin G. Buss, Jessica Posada, Taha Merghoub and Sohail F. Tavazoie

Sebastian Klinge awarded Sloan Research Fellowship

Rockefeller’s Sebastian Klinge, who joined the faculty in September, will be the recipient of one of the most distinguished awards for early-career scientists from the United States and Canada, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. Klinge is among 126 scholars from a range of scientific discip...

Molecular Cell 53: 655-662 (14-2-20)

Molecular Cell 53: 655-662 Replication origin selection regulates the distribution of meiotic recombination Pei-Yun Jenny Wu and Paul Nurse

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: February 18, 2014

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: February 18, 2014 Chemical-biogeographic survey of secondary metabolism in soil Zachary Charlop-Powers, Jeremy G. Owen, Boojala Vijay B. Reddy, Melinda A. Ternei and Sean F. Brady

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111: 2770-2775 (14-2-18)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111: 2770-2775 Inducible and titratable silencing of Caenorhabditis elegans neurons in vivo with histamine-gated chloride channels Navin Pokala, Qiang Liu, Andrew Gordus and Cornelia I. Bargmann

Current Biology 24: 451-458 (14-2-17)

Current Biology 24: 451-458 The genome of the clonal raider ant Cerapachys biroi Peter R. Oxley, Lu Ji, Ingrid Fetter-Pruneda, Sean K. McKenzie, Cai Li, Haofu Hu, Guojie Zhang and Daniel J.C. Kronauer