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New protein identified in bacterial arsenal

Nearly a billion years ago, bacteria evolved an insidious means of infecting their hosts — a syringe-like mechanism able to inject cells with stealthy hijacker molecules. These molecules, called virulence factors, play a sophisticated game of mimicry, imitating many of the cells’ normal activiti...
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Bacteria-killing enzyme cures mice with fatal pneumonia

Before the advent of antibiotics, pneumonia claimed so many lives — and was so feared — that it was called the “captain of the ship of death.” Now, at a time when the new antibiotics have proved futile against resistant strains of bacteria, researchers at Rockefeller University are using a ...
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Brain encodes complex plumes of odors with a simple code

In the real world, odors don’t happen one puff at a time. Animals move through, and subsequently distort, plumes of odor molecules that constantly drift, changing direction as the wind disperses them. Now, by exploring how animals smell odors under naturalistic conditions, Rockefeller University ...
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Protein found linking stress and depression

Stress, the ever-present threat to health and happy living, is tough on the brain. If the strain goes on too long, it can lead to debilitating psychological problems. Part of the reason, according to scientists at The Rockefeller University, may have to do with a little-known family of proteins c...
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Brain protein may be a target for fast-acting antidepressants

It takes weeks or months for the effect of most antidepressants to kick in, time that can feel like an eternity to those who need the drugs the most. But new research suggests that a protein called p11, previously shown to play a role in a person’s susceptibility to depression, activates a seroto...
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Announcements

Pearl Meister Greengard Prize awarded to three women scientists. The 2008 award goes to Elizabeth H. Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco; Carol W. Greider of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and Vicki Lundblad of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Thes...
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Financial Crisis Update

I am writing to the university community to give you an update on how the worldwide economic situation is affecting Rockefeller. As you know, the global financial situation remains serious and the markets continue to be unstable. I last wrote to you in December, and I presented some information a...
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Visual neuroscientist named to Rockefeller’s faculty

Winrich Freiwald uses imaging techniques to study visual processing by ZACH VEILLEUX With every glance, the human eye collects the equivalent of several hundred megapixels of data and passes it to the brain for processing. Understanding what happens next — how our brains organize this piecemeal i...
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Genetic epidemiologist named visiting professor

by ZACH VEILLEUX Laurent Abel, a geneticist interested in infectious diseases, has been appointed a visiting professor and member of Jean-Laurent Casanova’s Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Disease. Though he will continue to be based in France — his existing laboratory is at the Neck...
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IT unveils new mail-processing software

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN There was a time, not so long ago, when people got their e-mail at their desks, on their computers. Before the influence of Blackberries and iPhones, e-mail messaging was a reasonably simple affair, with a couple of servers and some simple software running the whole operat...
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