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Altering the balance of immune-cell receptors could help treat cancer and autoimmune diseases

Dendritic cells are responsible for directing the body’s immune response, and they’re activated through receptors on their surfaces. Now, in research that may have implications for novel disease therapies, Rockefeller University scientists have shown that the balance of two different versions of...
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Two forces of arousal converge on the "satiety center" of the brain

By pitting two forces — hunger and circadian rhythms — against each other, researchers at Rockefeller University have identified the region of the brain that first registers changes in food availability. The research, in mice, suggests that shifting the timing of a meal increases mental alertnes...
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New method enables scientists to see smells

Animals and insects communicate through an invisible world of scents. By exploiting infrared technology, researchers at Rockefeller University just made that world visible. With the ability to see smells, these scientists now show that when fly larvae detect smells with both olfactory organs they...
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Active mechanism locks in the size of cell's nucleus

Cells know that size matters, especially when it comes to the nucleus. In the early 1900s, German scientists first proposed that the size of a nucleus is always proportional to the size of its cell. Now, more than a century later, researchers at Rockefeller University show that an active mechanis...
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Center for Clinical and Translational Science funds eight new pilot studies

The Rockefeller University Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) has announced the recipients of its 2008 Pilot Project grants. Eight Rockefeller researchers will each receive $25,000 from the center to fund early studies in translational science that, if successful, might lead to ...
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Three biophysicists receive Burroughs Wellcome career awards

Three Rockefeller University scientists are among the 2008 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI): Dirk Albrecht, postdoctoral associate in Cori Bargmann’s Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior, Maria Neimark Geffen, fellow at the Center for Studies in Physi...
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Most carriers of Fanconi anemia genes are not at a higher risk of cancer

For almost 50 years, Fanconi anemia has been associated with leukemia. Not just among those who have the genetic disorder but among their family members, whose genes, they were told, made them highly susceptible to a variety of malignancies. But a new study to examine links between 13 specific Fa...
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Holiday party is December 20. Highlights this year include Italian food and traditional Italian music performed by Richard Stillman on the 17th floor of Weiss Research Building, French food in Café East and Spanish tapas and music by Spanish guitarist Shan Kenner in Café South. Evolut...
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Concepts emerge for planned Welch Hall renovation

by ZACH VEILLEUX In the university’s early years, it was a grand space where scientists gathered for meals, study and discussion. More recently it has served as storage for archived journal volumes and office space for the library’s staff. But if new plans — under development since last year ...
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Grants office expands its mission under new director

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN In the hypercompetitive, high-stakes world of scientific research grants, Rockefeller’s faculty has a new leg up. This fall, Gila Budescu, most recently from Northwestern University, has joined the university as director of the Office of Sponsored Research and Program Deve...
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