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Awarded: C. David Allis, a $1 million grant from the Starr Foundation’s Sixth Starr Cancer Consortium Grant Competition to investigate epigenetic contributions to the development of pediatric gliomas. Dr. Allis is the Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology ...
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Rockefeller announces 31 percent reduction in carbon emissions

Five years after the university committed to reducing its carbon footprint as part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 2030 Carbon Challenge, the results from several institutions have been announced. Rockefeller’s carbon emissions fell by nearly 31 percent, based on 2005 levels. Rockefeller was one of...
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Scientists discover gene mutation that causes children to be born without spleen

The spleen is rarely noticed, until it is missing. In children born without a spleen, that doesn’t happen until they become sick with life-threatening bacterial infections, often within their first year of life. An international team of researchers led by scientists from Rockefeller’s St. Giles ...

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Looking to nature for antibiotic inspirations   "Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacterial cells, employ an arsenal of chemical weapons. Microbiologist Vincent Fischetti of Rockefeller University describes using tricks learned from the phage in developing new antibiotics that may be effective...

Science online: April 11, 2013

Science online: April 11, 2013 Ribosomal protein SA haploinsufficiency in humans with isolated congenital asplenia Alexandre Bolze, Nizar Mahlaoui, Minji Byun, Bridget Turner, Nikolaus Trede, Steven  R. Ellis, Avinash Abhyankar, Yuval Itan, Etienne Patin, Samuel Brebner, Paul Sackstein, Anne Puel...
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Scientists use Nature against Nature to develop an antibiotic with reduced resistance

A new broad range antibiotic, developed jointly by scientists at The Rockefeller University and Astex Pharmaceuticals, has been found to kill a wide range of bacteria, including drug-resistant Staphylococcus (MRSA) bacteria that do not respond to traditional drugs. The antibiotic, Epimerox, targe...

Nature 496: 110-113 (4-4-13)

Nature 496: 110-113 SIRT6 regulates TNF-α secretion through hydrolysis of long-chain fatty acyl lysine Hong Jiang, Saba Khan, Yi Wang, Guillaume Charron, Bin He, Carlos Sebastian, Jintang Du, Ray Kim, Eva Ge, Raul Mostoslavsky, Howard C. Hang, Quan Hao and Hening Lin

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Obama to unveil initiative to map the human brain   "A working group at the N.I.H., described by the officials as a 'dream team,' and led by Cori Bargmann of Rockefeller University and William Newsome of Stanford University, will be charged with coming up with a plan, a time frame, specific goals...

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Good Day New York Book Club interviews Erec Stebbins   "Erec Stebbins is an award-winning researcher at Rockefeller University. In his spare time, he has written an absorbing thriller about an FBI agent tracking down home grown terrorists. The book is called The Ragnarök Conspiracy."
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Mechanism of mutant histone protein in childhood brain cancer revealed

Most cancer treatments are blunt. In an attempt to eradicate tumors, oncologists often turn to radiation or chemotherapy, which can damage healthy tissue along with the cancerous growths. New research from C. David Allis’s laboratory at Rockefeller University may bring scientists closer to design...
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