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Biologists use microfluidics chips to watch worm behavior

Tiny roundworms called Caenorhabditis elegans have a rather uncomplicated method for finding food: They wriggle and turn and explore new territory until they find something edible, and then they stay the course until the food disappears. But despite the worm’s simple nervous system, researchers ...
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Pilot study to probe link between kidney disease and heart disease

Kidney disease isn’t just about kidneys: Research has shown that people with kidney abnormalities have a dramatically increased risk of heart disease. But by studying blood samples from patients with early-stage kidney disease, researchers at The Rockefeller University Hospital hope to better def...
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Announcements

Visiting Scholars Program seminars begin next week. During their stay, Rockefeller’s visiting scholars, Peter Goodfellow and Philip Campbell, will give special seminars, together and separately. The schedule, along with their campus contact information, is below. Peter Goodfellow: Monday, October...
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Pharma exec, editor to be university's first visiting scholars

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN For a few weeks this fall, talk on campus will step beyond basic science. Former pharmaceutical executive Peter Goodfellow and Nature editor in chief Philip Campbell will join The Rockefeller University this month as its first visiting scholars. The Visiting Scholars Progr...
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Why visiting scholars?

One of the strategic aims identified in the plan for the university is to foster interactions among scientists at all levels. Over the past few years we have introduced a number of vehicles to encourage greater intellectual exchange. These include the Monday Lecture Series, now entering its third...
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Princeton physicist joins Rockefeller as part-time visiting professor

by TALLEY HENNING BROWN There’s more than one way to visit. While Peter Goodfellow and Philip Campbell will each spend a few weeks here as visiting scholars, William Bialek has committed to a longer-term stay as a part-time visiting professor. A theoretical physicist and professor at Princeton U...
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Milestones

Awarded: Sean Brady, a 2007 Beckman Young Investigator Award, for his work in the discovery and study of naturally occurring small molecules and their therapeutic potential. The award, which comes with a grant of approximately $300,000, was established in 1991 by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foun...
Awards and Honors

Sean Brady named 2007 Beckman Young investigator

Chemical biologist Sean Brady, head of Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, is one of this year’s Beckman Young Investigators. One of 16 awardees this year, Brady was chosen by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for his work in the discovery and study ...
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Immune cells can simultaneously stimulate and inhibit killer cell activity

Dendritic cells, which are responsible for teaching other immune cells to attack infected or mutated cells, face a dangerous predicament. To demonstrate that an enemy has invaded, they must change to look a little bit like the invader. And once they look like an enemy, they risk being treated lik...
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Balancing act protects vulnerable cells from cancer

When a cell loses some of its weapons to fight cancer, it can still look healthy and act normally — if not forever, at least for a while. In research published in the October 15 issue of Cancer Cell, Rockefeller University scientists show how cells lacking a key receptor in a tumor-suppressing pa...
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