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Scientists identify potential new target for schizophrenia drugs

Rockefeller University scientists have identified a protein that boosts the signaling power of a receptor involved in relaying messages between brain cells, a finding that suggests a new target for the development of treatments for schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease. The protein, called Nor...
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Ralph M. Steinman receives 2010 Heineken Prize for Medicine

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has awarded the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine to Ralph M. Steinman “for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in the immune response.” Awarded since 1989 to researchers and others in the medical field, the prize consists of a c...
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Paul Nurse to resign as Rockefeller president to become president of Royal Society of London in December

Paul Nurse, Rockefeller University’s president since 2003, will leave the university in December 2010 to assume the presidency of the Royal Society of London. The Royal Society of London is the British equivalent of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. The president of the Royal Society acts...
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Titia de Lange receives AACR Clowes Award

Titia de Lange, a cell biologist who studies how the erosion of chromosome ends is related to the development of cancer, was awarded the G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award from the American Association for Cancer Research this week. de Lange, who is the Leon Hess Professor at Rockefeller and an Ameri...
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Cell division orchestrated by multiple oscillating proteins, new research finds

Cell division is a crucial but dangerous business. It unfolds in a cycle of many steps, including DNA replication, spindle formation, mitosis and others, and they must happen in the right order to prevent abnormal cell death and cancer formation. New research from Rockefeller University examines...
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New gene for hair loss identified

A newly identified gene connected to hair growth may inform future treatments for male pattern baldness, says a team of researchers from Rockefeller, Columbia and Stanford Universities. The scientists found that the gene, called APCDD1, causes a type of progressive hair loss known as hereditary ...
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New probe technology illuminates the activation of light-sensing cells

Ultimately, Charles Darwin’s “endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful” can be boiled down to a scant 20 or so amino acids, the basic building blocks of life. From this parsimonious palette, nature paints the proteins that make up the wild diversity of life on earth, from the simple...
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Rockefeller University names Martin Rees 2009 Lewis Thomas Prize winner

Cosmologist and astrophysicist Martin Rees has been named the recipient of Rockefeller University’s Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science for 2009. The award recognizes Rees’s 2000 publication Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape The Universe, and will be presented to him at a c...
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Leslie Vosshall, Paul Greengard win Dart/NYU biotech awards

Two Rockefeller scientists will be honored this week with the 2010 Dart/NYU award, which recognizes the role of pure science in the development of pharmaceuticals and honors scientists whose work has led to major advances to improving patient care. Leslie B. Vosshall, head of the Laboratory of Ne...
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Rockefeller particle physicists already at work as LHC particle collider research starts

A team of particle physicists from Rockefeller University watched intently as the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, collided protons at a record energy of 7 teraelectron volts (TeV) yesterday, officially marking the start of the LHC research pr...
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