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Protein is linked to functional development of brain neurons

Rockefeller University investigators say that a molecule that helps transport cargo inside nerve cells may have another, critically important, role related to how developing neurons sprout the projections that relay electrical signals within the brain. In the June 6 issue of The EMBO Journal, re...
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Dendritic cells are replenished from blood

Dendritic cells help direct the body’s immune response by presenting invading antigens to T cells so they know what to attack. But an ongoing debate exists about where dendritic cells originate and how they multiply, especially in the spleen and lymph system. Now, in a paper published in this mon...
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Study of staph reveals how bacteria evolve resistance

Antibacterial resistance doesn’t happen overnight. But until recently nobody knew exactly how long it took — or how it happened at all. Now, by studying blood taken from a single patient over a period of months, Rockefeller University researchers have been able to trace how a common strain of ba...
Awards and Honors

Torsten Wiesel receives National Medal of Science

Rockefeller University President Emeritus Torsten N. Wiesel, who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is a recipient of the 2005 National Medal of Science, the White House announced Tuesday. Established by Congress in 1959 and administered by the National Science Foundation, the...
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Reset your password. As part of new Information Technology security measures, all members of the Rockefeller community are required to change the password that logs them into e-mail, Oracle Calendar, VPN and other IT services. The rules for the new password, devised to stay ahead of advanced hack...
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CRC to be a LEED-certified ‘green’ building

by ZACH VEILLEUX The Collaborative Research Center, which will incorporate numerous environmentally friendly features in both its design and construction, will — if all goes as planned — be certified as a high-performance “green” building by the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in...
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Expanding scientific support

High-quality scientific research requires both sophisticated equipment and highly skilled individuals to operate that equipment. Over the past several years, the university has invested in a number of core resource centers that house much of our most expensive machinery as well as the highly trai...
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Stanford veterinarian named new LARC director

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Ravi Tolwani, a veterinarian who spent over a dozen years in Stanford University’s animal research facility, has been hired to take over the directorship of the Laboratory Animal Research Center upon the retirement of current director Fred Quimby this summer. Dr. Tolwani j...
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Awareness projects to launch on York Avenue, FDR

by ZACH VEILLEUX In a city where high-wattage billboards scream out from Times Square and even local delis tend to plaster their façades with signs, Rockefeller University maintains a surprisingly low profile. Nestled behind an iron gate and thick foliage on the west and cut off from the busy Fra...
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Rockefeller welcomes winged visitors

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN A corner of campus that has for several years served as a staging area for construction work has been relandscaped — with an eye toward butterflies. Plant Opera­tions, which oversees the university’s landscaping, began the process this spring of transforming the land adj...
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