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“Promiscuous” protein interactions found in the nuclear pore complex
In higher organisms, cells are very selective about what passes in and out of their nuclei, where the genes reside. This selectivity helps protect the DNA and is the job of machines that stud the envelope of the nucleus, called nuclear pore complexes. These gatekeepers have proved largely inscrut...
Clinical study to probe genetic link to Salmonella diseases
Depending on your genes, Salmonella can mean a lot more than food poisoning. In a new clinical study, researchers at ĐÓ°É Hospital are narrowing in on the genetic link that predisposes a person to a set of complications known as severe nontyphoidal salmonellosis (SNTS). The ...
New Innovator Award goes to cancer researcher Sohail Tavazoie
Sohail Tavazoie, Leon Hess Assistant Professor and head of Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Systems Cancer Biology, is one of this year’s recipients of the National Institutes of HealthĚýDirector’s New Innovator Award. The prestigious five-year grant will fund Tavazoie’s work in elucid...
Rockefeller virologists and MIT tissue engineers receive $5.8 million NIH grant to study hepatitis
Scientists studying hepatitis at Rockefeller University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will receive a $5.8 million grant to study hepatitis infection under the National Institutes of Health’sĚýinaugural Transformative R01 grant program, a groundbreaking initiative designed to encour...
New model suggests how the brain might stay in balance
The human brain is made up of 100 billion neurons — live wires that must be kept in delicate balance to stabilize the world’s most magnificent computing organ. Too much excitement and the network will slip into an apoplectic, uncomprehending chaos. Too much inhibition and it will flatline. A new...
Elaine Fuchs receives National Medal of Science
Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor and head of theĚýLaboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and DevelopmentĚýat Rockefeller University, has been named a recipient of the National Medal of Science,Ěýthe White House announced today. The medal is the nation’s highest scientific honor. Fuchs,...
Two Rockefeller scientists named finalists for Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
Two Rockefeller scientists — Associate Professor and head of laboratory Shai Shaham and Postdoctoral Fellow Sreekanth H. Chalasani — have been named finalists in the third annual Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists competition. Established by the New York Academy of Sciences and the Blavatnik ...
To better control Chagas disease, focus funds more efficiently, scientists say
One widespread approach to controlling insect-borne infectious diseases is controlling the populations of insects that cause the infections. In the case of Chagas disease, a chronic infection of 10 million people worldwide with no available cures or vaccines, it’s the “kissing bug” that public...
New technique allows scientists to penetrate yeast cells' hard exterior
If you want to know how a cell responds to a particular chemical, the experiment is simple: Inject it with that chemical. Micropipettes — tiny needles that can puncture a cell and deliver a compound directly into it — are used precisely for this purpose. But biologists who study yeast have not h...
Two proteins enable skin cells to regenerate
Nevermind facial masks and exfoliating scrubs, skin takes care of itself. Stem cells located within the skin actively generate differentiating cells that can ultimately form either the body surface or the hairs that emanate from it. In addition, these stem cells are able to replenish themselves, ...
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