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Celestial clues hint at eclipse in Homer's Odyssey

Among countless other debates about Homer’s Odyssey — not the least of which is whether the entire poem can be attributed to Homer himself — is whether Odysseus returns home to experience a total solar eclipse. Total eclipses, when the moon briefly but completely blocks the sun, happen prett...
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Scientists identify a key regulator of DNA mutations

As a general rule, your DNA is not something you want rearranged. But there are exceptions – especially when it comes to fighting infections. Since the number of microbes in the world far surpasses the amount of human DNA dedicated to combat them, specialized cells in the immune system have adopt...
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Rockefeller University to hold 50th commencement June 12

The Rockefeller University will award doctoral degrees to 26 students in its 50th graduating class at a commencement ceremony on Thursday, June 12. Three distinguished alumni will also receive honorary doctor of science degrees: Gerald M. Edelman, class of ’60, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in P...
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Flow of potassium ions in brain cells is key to sexual arousal

When it comes to sex, a female rat knows how to avoid a communication breakdown. To announce her sexual readiness, she will automatically arch her back, deflect her tail and stand rigid to allow an aroused male to mount. Now, Rockefeller University researchers have figured out the precise chemica...
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Two Rockefeller faculty become new HHMI investigators

Two Rockefeller faculty members, Paul D. Bieniasz and Leslie B. Vosshall, are among 56 biomedical scientists nationwide chosen to become Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators this year. The new appointments bring the total number of HHMI investigators at the university to 14. HHMI investi...
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Scientists image a single HIV particle being born

A mapmaker and a mathematician may seem like an unlikely duo, but together they worked out a way to measure longitude — and kept millions of sailors from getting lost at sea. Now, another unlikely duo, a virologist and a biophysicist at Rockefeller University, is making history of its own. By usi...
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World Science Festival begins May 28

The first annual World Science Festival, an unprecedented celebration of scientific discovery sponsored in part by Rockefeller University and featuring more than a dozen Nobel laureates along with researchers, technologists, educators, policy makers, artists and performers, will begin May 28 in N...
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DNA vaccines get a boost from dendritic cells

The concept sounds ideal: vaccines made of DNA that could be taken in by other cells and give instructions for how to fight off different diseases. The reality, however, has fallen short. Although DNA vaccines have been around for about 15 years and shown lots of promise for HIV, SARS and influen...
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First evidence of native dendritic cells in brain

In a finding that has the potential to change the way researchers think about the brain, scientists at Rockefeller University have found dendritic cells where they’ve never been seen before: among this organ’s neurons and connective cells. The immunity-directing dendritic cell had previously bee...
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Convocation is June 12. This year’s 26 graduates commemorate 50 years of degree-granting excellence. Honorary degrees will go to Rockefeller alumni: Gerald M. Edelman, class of 1960, Nina V. Fedoroff, 1972, and Bertil Hille, 1967. The schedule of events: June 12: 2:30 p.m. Academic Processiona...
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