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Cell 158, 300–313

Cell 158, 300–313 Crosstalk between Muscularis Macrophages and Enteric Neurons Regulates Gastrointestinal Motility Paul Andrew Muller, Balázs Koscsó, Gaurav Manohar Rajani, Korey Stevanovic, Marie-Luise Berres, Daigo Hashimoto, Arthur Mortha, Marylene Leboeuf, Xiu-Min Li, Daniel Mucida, E. Richa...

In the News 7/16/14

Dialing Back Stress With A Bubble Bath, Beach Trip And Bees   "Stress raises our heart rate and ramps our immune systems to prepare for injury and danger. 'The problem is if we don't turn those responses off efficiently when the danger is over ... they can cause damage,' [Bruce] McEwen says."

New faculty member uses genetic sequencing to investigate childhood brain disease

Joseph Gleeson, a neurogeneticist who hunts down genes responsible for devastating neurodevelopmental disorders, has joined The Rockefeller University and has established the Laboratory of Pediatric Brain Diseases. Gleeson, formerly a professor at the University of California, San Diego, is one o...

Nature Cell Biology online July 13, 2014

Nature Cell Biology online July 13, 2014 Par3-mInsc and Gαi3 cooperate to promote oriented epidermal cell divisions through LGN Scott E. Williams, Lyndsay A. Ratliff, Maria Pia Postiglione, Juergen A. Knoblich and Elaine Fuchs

In the News - Ars Technica - 7/11/14

3D printing used to control stem cell differentiation   Scientists from the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology at Rockefeller University are using principles from geometry to control the patterns through which [human embryonic stem cells] develop.

In the News - Daily Mail UK - Tavazoie

How spread of breast cancer could be stopped "Professor Sohail Tavazoie, who led the research, said: ‘If we learn more about how this regulation works, we may in the future be able to generate drugs that prevent this protein from triggering metastatic disease.’"

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Scientists Join the World of Crowdfunding   “'But science has yet to gain Veronica Mars status,' notes Jeanne Garbarino, director of science outreach at Rockefeller University in New York, who has used crowdfunding and informally advised others. Instead, scientific projects tend to be far more ...

Nature online: July 9, 2014

Nature online: July 9, 2014 Metastasis-suppressor transcript destabilization through TARBP2 binding of mRNA hairpins | Newswire Hani Goodarzi, Steven Zhang, Colin G. Buss, Lisa Fish, Saeed Tavazoie and Sohail F. Tavazoie

Genetically driven gut feelings help female flies choose a mate

Even among flies, mating is a complicated ritual. Their elaborate, and entirely innate, courtship dance combines multiple motor skills with advanced sensory cues. Now, researchers at Rockefeller University have determined that the Abdominal-B (Abd-B) gene, previously known as the gene that sculpt...

Impaired TrkB Receptor Signaling Underlies Corticostriatal Dysfunction in Huntington's Disease

Neuron 83(1):178-88 Impaired TrkB Receptor Signaling Underlies Corticostriatal Dysfunction in Huntington's Disease Joshua L. Plotkin, Michelle Day, Jamys D. Peterson, Zhong Xie, Geraldine J. Kress, Igor Rafalovich, Jyothisri Kondapalli, Tracy S. Gertler, Marc Flajolet, Paul Greengard, Mihaela Sta...