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Netrin molecules help neruons shed their symmetry

For years, scientists have known that netrin molecules help guide growing neurons and their axons — the long tendrils that conduct electrical signals. But new research shows that these proteins are also important for helping create the neuron’s characteristically asymmetrical shape. In a recent ...
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Paul Nurse elected fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Rockefeller University President Paul Nurse has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an independent policy research center that undertakes studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy announced the election April 24. Founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bow...
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Newly discovered protein kills Anthrax bacteria by exploding their cell walls

Not all biological weapons are created equal. They are separated into categories A through C, category A biological agents being the scariest: They are easy to spread, kill effectively and call for special actions by the pubic health system. One of these worrisome organisms is anthrax, which has ...
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Genetic data from an island population proves to be useful tool in understanding disease

With fewer than 4,000 residents, the genetically isolated Micronesian island of Kosrae, in the West Pacific, provides an ideal population in which to research heritability of disease. Over the last 12 years, Rockefeller University researchers have been collecting blood samples and other data from...
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Help for bleeding hearts: new research links a third protein to blood-clotting disorders

Studying receptors on the surface of blood platelets, sticky cells that cause blood to clot, has given one Rockefeller researcher new insight into potential causes and treatments for certain cardiovascular diseases. Barry Coller, David Rockefeller Professor and the university’s physician-in-chief...
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McEwen to receive Pasarow Award

Rockefeller University’s Bruce McEwen, whose laboratory studies how the brain changes in response to stress and other experiences, will receive the 2005 Neuropsychiatry Research Award from the Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation. The announcement was made this week by the Pasarow Foundation i...
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Researchers uncover a pathway linked to autoimmune disease

When a person’s immune cells lose the ability to distinguish “self” from “non-self,” they end up launching an attack on the body they’re supposed to protect. Exactly what happens to rob them of that ability has been the subject of decades of research. In a series of discoveries that has ...
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Lizard's 'third eye' sheds light on how vision evolved

A primitive third eye found in many types of lizards, used to detect changes in light and dark and to regulate the production of certain hormones, may help explain how vision evolved and how signals are transmitted from the eyes to the brain, according to new research by Rockefeller University sc...
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Researchers show laboratory hepatitis C strain is also infections in animal models

An important step in developing a treatment for viral diseases is for scientists to culture live viruses from infected patients, but the hepatitis C virus (HCV), a major cause of chronic and sometimes fatal liver disease, has proven to be particularly wily. For many years scientists have struggle...
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Paul Nurse to co-host Charlie Rose on avian flu

Rockefeller President Paul Nurse will make his second appearance on Charlie Rose tonight, when he co-hosts, with Rose, an hour-long discussion on the threat of avian flu. The show, which is to be the first in a series of science-themed Charlie Rose shows co-hosted with Nurse, will air on PBS tele...
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