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Sweat glands grown from newly identified stem cells

To date, few fundamentals have been known about the most common gland in the body, the sweat glands that are essential to controlling body temperature, allowing humans to live in the world’s diverse climates. Now, in a tour de force, researchers at The Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes...

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Waging a losing war against mosquitoes   "We had no winter in the Northeast this year, and so there's a lot of predictions from mosquito control experts that we're going to have a really huge season of high populations of mosquitoes, and so with that, more disease transmission," said Leslie Vossh...

The Lancet 379: 2500 (June 30, 2012)

The Lancet 379: 2500 Herpes in STAT1 deficiency Beáta Tóth, Leonóra Méhes, Szilvia Taskó, Zsuzsanna Szalai, Zsolt  Tulassay, Sophie Cypowyj, Jean-Laurent Casanova, Anne Puel and László Maródi

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109: 10564-10569 (June 26, 2012)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109: 10564-10569 Scale invariance in the dynamics of spontaneous behavior Alex Proekt, Jayanth R. Banavar, Amos Maritan and Donald W. Pfaff

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109: 10352-10357 (June 26, 2012)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109: 10352-10357 Mechanistic basis for low threshold mechanosensitivity in voltage-dependent K+ channels Daniel Schmidt, Josefina del Mármol and Roderick MacKinnon

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: June 25, 2012

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA online: June 25, 2012 Cholinergic interneurons in the nucleus accumbens regulate depression-like behavior Jennifer L. Warner-Schmidt, Eric F. Schmidt, John J. Marshall, Amanda J. Rubin, Margarita Arango-Lievano, Michael G. Kaplitt, Ines Ibañez-T...
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Board approves nine-year strategic plan

Following nearly a year of development, the university’s strategic plan titled “Transforming Biomedicine” has been approved by the Board of Trustees. The plan, which will guide the university’s activities over a nine-year period ending in 2020, was authored by a 13-member strategic planning ...
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New $600 million campaign launches

by LESLIE CHURCH With the introduction of an ambitious new strategic plan, The Rockefeller University is also embarking on a fundraising initiative, to be called the Campaign for Transforming Biomedicine. The campaign seeks to raise at least $600 million in nine years to facilitate the university...
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Nobel winnings to fund Cohn-Steinman professorship

by ZACH VEILLEUX Ralph M. Steinman, head of the Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, died just three days before winning the Nobel Prize last year. But his legacy at the university will live on: with a gift from the Steinman family and the support of over 120 donors including many of...
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Recent computer attacks on campus target Macs, e-mail

by LESLIE CHURCH It’s not just biologists who are studying infection at Rockefeller. Computer security experts based in the IT Pavilion have been kept busy in recent months managing outbreaks of viruses and other malware on campus computers.     In June more than a dozen people on campus fe...
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