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City to study making York Avenue one-way

December 7, 2007 by ZACH VEILLEUX The New York City Department of Transportation is studying a series of proposals, introduced by three of Rockefeller University’s neighboring institutions, to revamp traffic patterns along York Avenue. If any of the proposals is ultimately implemented, it could m...
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Old spaces give way to new laboratories

As demolition work on the north campus kicks into full gear, several relocated laboratories are settling into newly renovated digs further south. Plant Operations personnel, in conjunction with Planning and Construction, spent months refitting several spaces with new fixtures to accommodate speci...
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Calling all personnel

Rockefeller University expands its electronic alert notification system to include all members of the campus community by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Send Word Now, an emergency alert system first implemented in 2005 to quickly communicate with “first responders” on campus during a disaster, has been ...
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Life Trustee Brooke Astor dies at 105

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Brooke Russell Astor was known as a great conversationalist, but her philosophy regarding her life’s work was something she described succinctly: “Power is the ability to do good things for others.” The beloved grande dame of New York philanthropy circles and a trustee ...
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Milestones

Awarded: Dirk Albrecht, Maria Neimark Geffen and Jan Skotheim, 2008 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards at the Scientific Interface. The grants, which come with $500,000 each over five years, are designed to foster the early career advancement of researchers with backgrounds in the physical and...
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New method exploits old mechanism to turn genes on and off at will

Since our ancestors first harnessed fire, we’ve used heat to cook burgers, forge steel and power rockets. Now, Rockefeller University researchers are using heat for another purpose: turning genes on and off at will. By exploiting the heat shock response, an ancient mechanism that protects cells f...
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Cells use Velcro-like mechanism to keep viruses from spreading

Like mobsters, cells keep their friends close and their enemies — at least some of them — closer. According to new results from HIV researchers at Rockefeller University, one way that human cells prevent certain viruses from raging out of control is by blocking new viral particles from ever leav...
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Small experience during critical period alters brain

Unlike the circuitry of the visual system, that of the olfactory system was thought to be hardwired: Once the neurons had formed, no amount of sensory input could change their arrangement. Now researchers at Rockefeller University and their collaborators have upturned this scientific dogma by sho...
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Rendering of ion channel suggests how neurons fire

Four years ago, Roderick MacKinnon, head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University, together with several members of his lab, published the first ever structure of a voltage-dependent potassium ion channel — a protein that controls the flow of potassium ...
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Multi-lab collaboration yields first detailed map of nuclear pore complex

A cell’s membrane-bound nucleus contains precious contents — its DNA — so it must be very careful about what enters and leaves this important space. To do this, it uses hundreds to thousands of nuclear pores as its gatekeepers, selective membrane channels that are responsible for regulating th...
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