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Tarun Kapoor, Pels Family Professor and head of the Laboratory of Chemistry and Cell Biology, will receive the 2012 Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award from The Protein Society. The award recognizes Dr. Kapoor’s work combining chemical and biological approaches to dissect mechanisms of cell div...

The Rockefeller University has received a $15 million gift from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to fund research into digestive disorders including metabolic diseases, cancers and infections, university officials announced today. The funds will establish a new center, to be kn...

Science 335: 970–973 Control of nonapoptotic developmental cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans by a polyglutamine-repeat protein Elyse S. Blum, Mary C. Abraham, Satoshi Yoshimura, Yun Lu and Shai Shaham In Caenorhabditis elegans, programmed death of the linker cell, which leads gonadal elongatio...

Nature online: February 7, 2012 DNA damage defines sites of recurrent chromosomal translocations in B lymphocytes Ofir Hakim, Wolfgang Resch, Arito Yamane, Isaac Klein, Kyong-Rim Kieffer-Kwon, Mila Jankovic, Thiago Oliveira, Anne Bothmer, Ty C. Voss, Camilo Ansarah-Sobrinho, Ewy Mathe, Genqing Li...

Norton D. Zinder, a geneticist and microbiologist whose research on the genetics of bacteria and on the properties of bacteriophages — viruses that infect bacteria — provided important information on the mechanisms of heredity, died Friday, February 3 after a long illness. He was 83. Zinder w...

Science 335: 436–441 Crystal structure of the human K2P TRAAK, a lipid- and mechano-sensitive K+ ion channel Stephen G. Brohawn, Josefina del Mármol and Roderick MacKinnon We present the crystal structure of human TRAAK at a resolution of 3.8 angstroms. The channel comprises two protomers, e...

On the surface, it’s simple: when night falls, our bodies get sleepy. But behind the scenes, a series of complex molecular events, controlled by our genes, is hard at work to make us groggy. Now, research suggests that a newly identified gene known as insomniac may play a role in keeping us aslee...

Nature Genetics online: January 22, 2012 Epigenetic repression of cardiac progenitor gene expression by Ezh2 is required for postnatal cardiac homeostasis Paul Delgado-Olguín, Yu Huang, Xue Li, Danos Christodoulou, Christine E. Seidman, J.G. Seidman, Alexander Tarakhovsky and Benoit G. Bru...

Cell Stem Cell 10: 63–75 Paracrine TGF-β Signaling Counterbalances BMP-Mediated Repression in Hair Follicle Stem Cell Activation Naoki Oshimori and Elaine Fuchs Hair follicle (HF) regeneration begins when communication between quiescent epithelial stem cells (SCs) and underlying mesenchymal d...

Nature Immunology online: December 25, 2011 B cell–helper neutrophils stimulate the diversification and production of immunoglobulin in the marginal zone of the spleen Irene Puga, Montserrat Cols, Carolina M. Barra, Bing He, Linda Cassis, Maurizio Gentile, Laura Comerma, Alejo Chorny, Meimei Shan...