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Rockefeller Receives Horwitz Prize for Pioneering Work on How Genes are Turned On and Off

Rockefeller University biochemist Robert Roeder, Ph.D., received the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University on Thursday, Feb. 3. The prize, which Roeder shares with Robert Tjian, Ph.D., of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California at Berkeley and Pierre Cham...
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Four Rockefeller Science Outreach students are finalists in Intel Science Talent Search

Four out of the 10 Science Outreach students who reached the semifinalist stage in the Intel Science Talent Search, have been named finalists: Evan Fink, Adam Kahn, Chrisann Kyi and Eugene Simuni. Only 40 finalists are named each year. In March the finalists will travel to Washington, D.C., to pa...
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Understanding Drive: Rockefeller researchers uncover the molecular mechanisms of sexual motivation

For most people, sex is a complicated topic. A new book by RU Professor Donald Pfaff, however, is based on the idea that the primitive, biological side of sex is explainable--at least from a scientific point of view. Pfaff's lab researches the neurobiological and molecular aspects of sexual motiv...
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Rockefeller and Aaron Diamond researcher Douglas Nixon receives Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Award

Douglas F. Nixon, M.D., Ph.D., a scientist at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center(ADARC) at Rockefeller University, today was named a co-winner of the Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Award. The award is given annually by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation to top scientists from the inte...
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Rockefeller researchers show testosterone reduces level of Alzheimer's proteins

Testosterone supplementation in elderly men may be protective in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, according to the results of a new study reported by researchers at Rockefeller University. Findings from epidemiological studies have indicated that estrogen-replacement therapy in postmenopausa...
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Ten Science Outreach students reach semifinals of Intel Science Talent Search

Ten out of the 60 high school students who participated in RU's Science Outreach Programhave been named semifinalists in the Intel Science Talent Search (formerly the Westinghouse Science Talent Search). This program, now in its 59th year, is one of the most prestigious science awards for high sc...
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Upcoming Symposium on Modeling Life Processes on Tuesday, January 11

DATE: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 TIME: 12:55-5:00 p.m. PLACE: The Rockefeller University Caspary Auditorium York Avenue at East 66th Street New York City 12:55 p.m. Introductory Remarks Arnold J. Levine, President, The Rockefeller University Phillip A. Griffiths, Director, Institute for Advanc...
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Rockefeller University researchers shed light on brain disorder

Findings suggest new treatment for autoimmune neurological disease A rare but devastating neurological disorder may be caused partly by immune-system cells that are spurred into action against tumors elsewhere in the body and eventually attack the brain, Rockefeller University researchers report....
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Rockefeller University researchers find molecule that controls the balance between bone creation and bone destruction

Discovery may have important implications for treating bone disease Researchers at The Howard Hughes Medical Institute at The Rockefeller University have identified a novel molecular mechanism by which a molecule called TRANCE controls the balance between bone formation and bone destruction. The ...
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RU researchers find that waking experiences influence the brain's gene expression during REM sleep

Mammals spend a large portion of their lives sleeping. In addition to allowing the body to rest, sleep seems to play a role in the consolidation of daytime memories. A number of scientific observations have supported the idea that the brain is reactivated during sleep to process sensorimotor info...
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