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Pearl Meister Greengard prize winner followed a gut feeling for 16 years   "Pediatric neurologist and neuroscientist Huda Y. Zoghbi won Rockefeller University's 10th annual Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, which on Thursday night she attributed in part to following 'a gut feeling.' For 16 years, sh...

A multi-center survey of close to 5,000 volunteers who enrolled in clinical research studies, the first of its kind, shows that by and large participants feel valued and respected by investigators. But although many gave high marks to the research teams’ trustworthiness and ability to explain the...

Michael A. Foley, an accomplished chemist and entrepreneur with more than 25 years of industry and academic experience, has been named director of the new Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute, a pioneering collaboration of Weill Cornell Medical College, The Rockefeller University an...

Biology's coefficient: Joel Cohen uses the tools of mathematics to deconstruct questions of life   "That study of Earth’s human population is only a drop in the bucket of the diverse, seemingly disparate, subjects that Cohen has addressed in his five-decade-long career. His studies of food webs,...

Genes and Development online: November 27, 2013 Role of SWI/SNF in acute leukemia maintenance and enhancer-mediated Myc regulation Junwei Shi, Warren A. Whyte, Cinthya J. Zepeda-Mendoza, Joseph P. Milazzo, Chen Shen, Jae-Seok Roe, Jessica L. Minder, Fatih Mercan, Eric Wang, Melanie A. Eckersley-M...

Nature online: November 27, 2013 Pan-viral specificity of IFN-induced genes reveals new roles for cGAS in innate immunity John W. Schoggins, Donna A. MacDuff, Naoko Imanaka, Maria D. Gainey, Bimmi Shrestha, Jennifer L. Eitson, Katrina B. Mar, R. Blake Richardson, Alexander V. Ratushny, Vladimir L...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: November 26, 2013 Nfatc1 orchestrates aging in hair follicle stem cells Brice E. Keyes, Jeremy P. Segal, Evan Heller, Wen-Hui Lien, Chiung-Ying Chang, Xingyi Guo, Dan S. Oristian, Deyou Zheng and Elaine Fuchs

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110: 19501-19506 Antitumor activities of agonistic anti-TNFR antibodies require differential FcγRIIB coengagement in vivo Fubin Li and Jeffrey V. Ravetch

Journal of Experimental Medicine online: November 25, 2013 Broadly neutralizing antibodies that inhibit HIV-1 cell to cell transmission Marine Malbec, Françoise Porrot, Rejane Rua, Joshua Horwitz, Florian Klein, Ari Halper-Stromberg, Johannes F. Scheid, Caroline Eden, Hugo Mouquet, Michel C. Nuss...

Nature Structural Molecular Biology online: November 24, 2013 The human cap-binding complex is functionally connected to the nuclear RNA exosome Peter Refsing Andersen, Michal Domanski, Maiken S. Kristiansen, Helena Storvall, Evgenia Ntini, Celine Verheggen, Aleks Schein, Jakob Bunkenborg, Ina Po...