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Scientists ID a single sugar that allows antibodies to fight inflammation
For years, researchers have struggled to understand how IVIG works. Its ability to treat autoimmune diseases seemed to be an apparent contradiction. Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is a complex mixture of IgG antibodies made from human plasma that contains the pooled antibodies from thousands o...
Evidence of rapid evolution is found at the tips of chromosomes
In terms of their telomeres, mice are more complicated than humans. That’s the finding from a recent Rockefeller University study, which shows that mice have two proteins working together to do the job of a single protein in human cells. The findings, published recently in Cell, suggest that the ...
Nine Rockefeller labs to receive Stem Cell Initiative grants
The Tri-Institutional Stem Cell Initiative, comprising three leading New York City biomedical research institutions — Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University and Weill Medical College of Cornell University — has announced the first wave of stem cell research projects t...
Twenty-eight degrees awarded at Rockefeller's 48th convocation
Rockefeller University’s 48th Convocation, held yesterday, marked the completion of graduate studies for 28 students. Twenty-six of this year’s 28 graduates participated in a formal presentation of Ph.D.s held in Caspary Auditorium on the university’s Manhattan campus. President Paul Nurse a...
Human stem cells can contribute to a developing mouse embryo, despite evolutionary differences
Using a newly derived line of human embryonic stem cells, Rockefeller University researchers have coaxed human cells to grow in mouse tissue. Ali Brivanlou, an embryologist who specializes in studying how the nervous system develops, and his colleagues demonstrated that despite the evolutionary d...
Sound investment: A new mathematical method provides a better way to analyze noise
Humans have 200 million light receptors in their eyes, 10 to 20 million receptors devoted to smell, but only 8,000 dedicated to sound. Yet despite this miniscule number, the auditory system is the fastest of the five senses. Researchers credit this discrepancy to a series of lightning-fast calcul...
Insights into the spliceosome suggest new explanations for generating biological complexity
While politicians debate whether evolution occurs, scientists are busy debating how it occurs. Now, new research from Rockefeller's Magda Konarska suggests that there are more ways than previously thought to achieve the impressive complexity characteristic of humans. Many organisms -- including h...
Natural products chemist to become Rockefeller's newest lab head
Following a yearlong search process involving an applicant pool of close to 700 candidates, Rockefeller University President Paul Nurse has announced that Sean Brady, a chemical biologist with a background in organic chemistry, microbiology and plant biology, will become assistant professor and h...
New research retraces connections between nose and brain
Every second our noses are bombarded with hundreds of smells, some pleasant, others not. Before we can react, however, our brains must first recognize an odor, and there are multiple steps between the nose and the brain. New research by Rockefeller’s Peter Mombaerts delves into the function and w...
Study of neurons leads scientists to re-envision vision
As we age, our eyes change shape — that’s why you see your eye doctor every year. But new research from Rockefeller University suggests that how the brain interprets visual information also changes with experience. And by studying the way in which nerve cells form connections between the eye and...
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