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Multitasking may be Achilles heel for hepatitis C

Despite its tiny genome, the hepatitis C virus packs a mean punch. The virus is a microcosm of efficiency, and each of its amino acids plays multiple roles in its survival and ability to sidestep attack. But new research from Rockefeller University suggests that this fancy footwork and multitaski...
Awards and Honors

Shaham and Chalasani named winners of 2009 Blavatnik Awards

Two Rockefeller University scientists were named winners of the third annual Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists at last night’s Science and the City Gala hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences. Associate Professor Shai Shaham, head of Rockefeller’s Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, an...
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Imaging study shows HIV particles assembling around its genome

HIV is a wily and lethal replicator. In less than 25 years, it’s killed more than 25 million people. Scientists are exploring exactly how this virus reproduces because they would like to find a way to abort the process. Now, just two years after a group at Rockefeller University was the first to ...
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Two proteins act as molecular tailors in DNA repair

Every day tiny segments of our DNA are chipped or fragmented or get stuck together when they should really be pulled apart. But what our genome necessarily lacks in stability it makes up for with a phalanx of guards that monitor and repair the damage. In new research to appear in this week’s adva...
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High fat diet increases inflammation in the mouse colon

Colorectal cancer, the third most common type of cancer worldwide, has been linked to an increased prevalence of the Western diet: one high in fat and low in fiber, vitamin D and calcium. Now, a team of scientists led by researchers at Rockefeller University have shown what happens to colon tissu...
Campus News

Rockefeller joins first national research study recruitment registry

Rockefeller University has joined more than 50 research institutions around the United States in making information about its clinical research trials available on ResearchMatch, the country’s first registry for recruiting research participants. ResearchMatch.org, which is a not-for-profit Web si...
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Announcements

Short sharp science. Communications and Public Affairs has added a Twitter feed to the university’s social media presence (see Rockefeller’s Facebook profile and YouTube channel). To stay up-to-date on the latest findings from Rockefeller labs, visit twitter.com/RockefellerUniv. 2009 golf outing...
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Labs take shape in Collaborative Research Center

For more photos and video of the construction progress, visit crc.rockefeller.edu. A little over two years after the jackhammers and bobcats first went to work on Smith Hall, the end is in sight, and the work on the Collaborative Research Center has progressed both on time and on budget. By late ...
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High honors for Friedman, Fuchs

The scientific community’s spotlight was focused on Rockefeller University at the start of this academic year when two faculty members — Marilyn M. Simpson Professor Jeffrey M. Friedman and Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor Elaine Fuchs — each received two highly prestigious prizes. In June, Dr....
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Cost containment measures

This message is reprinted from a letter sent to campus via e-mail on October 28. As part of the cost containment initiative that the administration launched as a consequence of the economic downturn, we have recently examined the range of events held annually on campus. We have decided to make so...
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