Category Archives: In the News
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Christian de Duve, 95, dies; Nobel-winning biochemist “[Dr. de Duve] discovered the lysosome, a tiny sack filled with enzymes that functions like a garbage disposal, destroying bacteria or parts of the cell that are old or worn out. His … More »
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Looking to nature for antibiotic inspirations “Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacterial cells, employ an arsenal of chemical weapons. Microbiologist Vincent Fischetti of Rockefeller University describes using tricks learned from the phage in developing new antibiotics that may be effective … More »
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Obama to unveil initiative to map the human brain “A working group at the N.I.H., described by the officials as a ‘dream team,’ and led by Cori Bargmann of Rockefeller University and William Newsome of Stanford University, will be … More »
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Good Day New York Book Club interviews Erec Stebbins “Erec Stebbins is an award-winning researcher at Rockefeller University. In his spare time, he has written an absorbing thriller about an FBI agent tracking down home grown terrorists. The book is … More »
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Legendary drug industry executives warn U.S. science cuts endanger the future “In short, even prior to the 5 percent budget cut brought about last week by sequestration, our basic research enterprise has been in crisis. This erosion in our … More »
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Scientists win millions for breakthrough research “Dr. Cori Bargmann of Rockefeller University received an unexpected phone call…she was told that she had been chosen to receive a $3 million cash prize for her research in brain development, which will … More »
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How stress gets under the skin: Q&A with neuroscientist Bruce McEwen “Be physically active, get a good diet, [get] adequate sleep, [create] social support, have a good hobby, meditate. All of these things really are common sense and now … More »
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Scarred for life? The biology of childhood hardship “Elsewhere, research by one of us, Bruce McEwen, has closed in on how pre- and postnatal stress affects a complex set of interactions between the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland and the adrenal … More »
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Food Fraud? Watchdog Group Raises Concerns “High school students supervised by New York’s Rockefeller University found alarming results in testing done over the last three years. Sixteen percent of the grocery store food they DNA tested, from expensive sheep’s … More »
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Epigenetics: How Our Experiences Affect Our Offspring “We were all brought up to think the genome was it,” said Rockefeller University molecular biologist C. David Allis. “It’s really been a watershed in understanding that there is something beyond the … More »
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New Method Enables Multiplex Genome Engineering “A consortium of scientists [including The Rockefeller University] announced that they had devised a way to enable simultaneous editing of several sites within the mammalian genome. The technology, based on a bacterial defense system … More »
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Is the Cure for Cancer Inside You? “In the long struggle that was to come, [Ralph] Steinman would try anything and everything that might extend his life, but he placed his greatest hope in a field he helped create, … More »
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Farmland Peaks, Crop Space to Revert Back to Nature, Report Finds “Humanity has reached what Rockefeller University scientists, in a new report, call ‘peak farmland.’ In the next half-century, a geographical area more than twice the size of France … More »
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Worried about Underwater Creatures, Scientists Want to Hush the Noisy Oceans “[O]ceans have actually become very loud due to man-made noise from oil rigs, sonar and ship propellers. And scientists are worried that all that added noise is hurting … More »
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Good Viruses Will Fight Acne as 1915 Discovery Is Revived “The research re-energizes a century-old treatment method that was abandoned with the rise of antibiotics during World War II. As germs have built up a resistance to those drugs … More »
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How testosterone may alter the brain after exercise “The exercise in this experiment was quite mild,” [Bruce S. McEwen] says — the equivalent of jogging at a pace at which someone could speak (or squeak) to a companion. “That’s … More »
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Defusing the war of words over organic food “Is there a less polarized way to think about the future of farming? Jesse H. Ausubel, an environmental scientist who directs the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University, thinks … More »
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A Redoubt of Learning Holds Firm “More broadly, [Paul Nurse] doesn’t fret about American dominance. That is just the way it is. Perhaps some cultural differences even accrue to the British side of the ledger. ‘The U.S.A. has a very … More »
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Growing Pains: Nations Balance Growth, Power Needs “These days electricity is so important to industrial society that providing adequate power isn’t good enough. For example, businesses that rely on the Internet simply can’t afford to be without power, even … More »
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Technology: Problem or Solution? “On the other hand, ask [Jesse Ausubel] about climate change (a subject he helped make the hot topic it is today), or overpopulation, or deforestation and you’ll get a surprisingly reassuring answer: things are getting … More »
