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Newly identified cells make fat

To understand where fat comes from, you have to start with a skinny mouse. By using such a creature and observing the growth of fat after injections of different kinds of immature cells, Rockefeller University scientists have discovered an important fat precursor cell that may in time explain how...
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Scientists identify a molecule that coordinates the movements of cells

Even cells commute. To get from their birthplace to their work site, they sequentially attach to and detach from an elaborate track of exceptionally strong proteins known as the extracellular matrix. Now, in research to appear in the October 3 issue of Cell, scientists at Rockefeller University s...
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A DNA-based vaccine shows promise against the avian flu

Though it has fallen from the headlines, a global pandemic caused by bird flu still has the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on high alert. Yet, to date, the only vaccines that have proven even semi-effective are produced in chicken eggs, take five to six months to prepar...
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New formula predicts how people will migrate in coming decades

Nearly 200 million people now live outside their country of birth. But the patterns of migration that got them there have proven difficult to project. Now scientists at Rockefeller University, with assistance from the United Nations, have developed a predictive model of worldwide population shift...
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Announcements

Events calendar goes electronic. Communications and Public Affairs (CPA) and Information Technology have launched the final phase of the Rockefeller University Calendar of Events overhaul. A weekly e-mail of featured events is sent each Monday morning to all members of the campus community. In ad...
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New faculty member studies cancer metastasis

by ZACH VEILLEUX Sohail Tavazoie, a physician-scientist whose research focuses on the molecular basis of cancer metastasis, has been named assistant professor and will join Rockefeller University as head of the Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology in January 2009. Dr. Tavazoie, a native of Tehran...
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Krueger named CEO of hospital

by ZACH VEILLEUX In a reorganization of senior leadership at The Rockefeller University Hospital effective July 1, James Krueger has been named chief executive officer, the organization’s highest administrative post. He takes over from Barbara O’Sullivan, who has served as CEO since 2005. Dr. O...
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Signs, screens and panels

In the coming months we will be unveiling several new initiatives aimed at improving some of the public areas — and making them easier to navigate and somewhat more useful. The first of these initiatives, which has been in place since early September, is an exhibit in the lobby of Caspary Auditor...
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Rockefeller hosts 2008 IQ2 debates

Intelligence Squared U.S., an organization dedicated to expanding and enlivening public discourse through debate, will hold several debates in Caspary Auditorium this year. The events, geared toward a public audience and broadcast via NPR, feature panels of experts arguing questions of current cu...
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For 50 New York City teens, a summer of science

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN Generally, by the time Rockefeller University gets its hands on burgeoning scientists, they’ve already picked up the basics: cells, genes, maybe a couple of grueling months of organic chemistry. That’s not nearly early enough, say several university faculty members, as we...
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