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Reducing Carbon by Curbing Population   "As the threat of climate change has evolved from a fuzzy faraway concept to one of the central existential threats to humanity, scholars like Professor [Joel E.] Cohen have noted that reducing the burning of fossil fuels might be easier if there were fewer...
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An embryonic cell’s fate is sealed by the speed of a signal

When embryonic cells get the signal to specialize the call can come quickly. Or it can arrive slowly. Now, new research from Rockefeller University suggests the speed at which a cell in an embryo receives that signal has an unexpected influence on that cell’s fate. Until now, only concentration o...
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Jean-Laurent Casanova honored with 2014 Sanofi-Institut Pasteur Award

Jean-Laurent Casanova, professor and head of the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases at The Rockefeller University, has been named a 2014 Sanofi-Institut Pasteur Award winner for his paradigm-shifting discovery of the role of single-gene mutations in infectious diseases,...
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Small RNAs in blood may reveal heart injury

Like clues to a crime, specific molecules in the body can hint at exposure to toxins, infectious agents or even trauma, and so help doctors determine whether and how to treat a patient. In recent years, tiny pieces of RNA called microRNAs have captured scientific attention for their potential as ...

Medical innovation requires federal support and structural improvements, Marc Tessier-Lavigne tells members of Congress

Two distinct but complementary types of research produce medical innovation: basic science in academic labs and applied work by private sector companies, Rockefeller President Marc Tessier-Lavigne told members of a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on July 17. Increased federal funding f...
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Discovery of pro-metastasis protein reveals mysterious link to neurodegeneration

Researchers have identified a protein that makes breast cancer cells more likely to metastasize. What's more, the protein appears to trigger cancer's spread in part by blocking two other proteins normally linked to neurodegeneration, a finding that suggests a tie between two of the most common di...

In the News - WSJ - 7/28/14

Wanted: Biotech Startups in New York City   "A lot of the legal and commercial groundwork has been established between Accelerator and its partner institutions, which should help speed the business-development process, said Marc Tessier-Lavigne, president of Rockefeller University."

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Peter Marler, Graphic Decoder of Birdsong, Dies at 86   “Dr. Marler was one of the first ethologists to produce graphic snapshots of birdsong — streaks of ink on paper, like an electrocardiogram, showing the wave-frequency, modulation and pitch of various calls and songs. From that data, Dr. ...
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Researchers create the first model of the DNA ‘replication fork’

Human cells make new copies of their DNA billions of times each day, a crucial process upon which life itself depends. However, scientists do not fully understand how cells unzip the double-stranded DNA molecule before replicating both halves of it. New work at Rockefeller may help change that. F...

Nat Immunol 2014 Jul 21

Nature Immunology online: July 21, 2014 Type I and type II Fc receptors regulate innate and adaptive immunity Andrew Pincetic, Stylianos Bournazos, David J DiLillo, Jad Maamary, Taia T. Wang, Rony Dahan, Benjamin-Maximillian Fiebiger and Jeffrey V. Ravetch
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