Happening Monday! Don't miss astronomer Chris Impey receive the 2026 Lewis Thomas Prize, Rockefeller’s prestigious #sciencewriting award.
Impey has written books exploring topics from the origins of the universe to the search for extraterrestrial life.
A new tool from Rockefeller's @danmucida.bsky.social and @czbiohub.bsky.social allows scientists to closely follow newly activated T cells as they travel and change during an infection—it may inform future therapies for infection, cancer, and autoimmunity.
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Erich Jarvis and @darnelr.bsky.social's discovery of a protein that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language has been selected for this year's #STATMadness competition from @statnews.com!
Look for Rockefeller in group 4: https://bit.ly/3FfcuRu
Huge congratulations to Gabriella Chua ( @gnlchua.bsky.social) and Andrea Terceros, 2026 recipients of the Weintraub Award! The award, given by @fredhutch.org, is considered among the most prestigious prizes for graduate students in the biosciences: https://bit.ly/4sfaxI9
Rockefeller's @junyuecao.bsky.social has created the most comprehensive atlas yet of how #aging affects thousands of cell subtypes. By profiling ~7 million individual cells, his lab has found which cells are most vulnerable to aging and what drives their decline: https://bit.ly/4bh9cdd
In this piece from @natcancer.nature.com, Rockefeller's Elaine Fuchs (@thefuchslab.bsky.social)—renowned for her research in skin biology, stem cells and associated disorders, including cancers and inflammation—recounts her scientific career.
A @nature.com study from @weillcornell.bsky.social and Rockefeller has overcome a long-standing challenge—how to isolate and study elusive #HIV-infected cells called authentic reservoir clones that evade the immune system, making the disease difficult to cure.
A new cell-free genomics framework from Rockefeller's Elizabeth Campbell in @cp-molcell.bsky.social isolates the primary impacts of transcription factors and establishes #tuberculosis as a model for understanding how genes are regulated.
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With supercomputers, algorithms, and troves of big data, the AI revolution is sparking new opportunities—and some challenges.
Rockefeller's Cori Bargmann, Nathaniel Heintz, and Jiankun Lyu offer their thoughts in this #SeekMagazine interview:
Rockefeller scientists are unpacking the basic biology of the microscopic invaders that cause vector-borne diseases—and our own immune responses to them—with the hope of developing the necessary tools to ward them off.
Learn more in #SeekMagazine: seek.rockefeller.edu/taming-mosqu...
Today and every day, we celebrate women scientists on our campus and around the world who are pushing boundaries, asking bold questions, and solving real-world problems.
Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenInScience!
Renowned astronomer Chris Impey of @stewardobservatory.bsky.social has been named the 2026 recipient of Rockefeller’s prestigious science writing award, the Lewis Thomas Prize!
Register for the ceremony on March 9 here:
Rockefeller's Alipasha Vaziri has developed some of the most powerful tools to observe brain-wide neural activity at the cellular scale in real time. We spoke to Vaziri about where this technology can ultimately lead us and more in this #SeekMagazine Q&A: https://bit.ly/4rznY5g
The Vertebrate Genomes Project, led by Rockefeller's
@erichjarvis.bsky.social, is preserving the genetic information of endangered species with help from @newsfromgoogle.bsky.social's AI tools:
This #WorldCancerDay we're highlighting work from Rockefeller's Kivanc Birsoy. In this Q&A, he shares why he's hopeful that targeting cancer cells' nutrients will yield a new, effective approach to fighting cancer: https://bit.ly/4qRBIse
If an Rh-negative pregnant woman has an Rh-positive fetus, her body may generate antibodies against the blood of the fetus. Landsteiner’s work paved the way for screening tests and interventions, greatly improving the safety of many pregnancies.
In 1940, Karl Landsteiner made a discovery in his lab at Rockefeller with huge implications: his research revealed the Rh factor—an antigen on the surface of red blood cells that can cause severe complications during pregnancy.
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In this Q&A with Rockefeller's Paul Cohen and @maschakoenen.bsky.social, they discuss their recent study that uncovered the mechanism—and the enzyme—that explains how fat can stiffen blood vessels and drive blood pressure upward: https://bit.ly/49Xe1cc
A study in @cellpress.bsky.social from Shixin Liu and Michael O’Donnell finds that a protein once thought to simply help load a factor necessary for the copying of DNA actually plays a key role in ensuring fast and reliable replication: https://bit.ly/4qOodK1
Rockefeller's Vertebrate Genome Laboratory (vertebrategenomes.bsky.social) has received support from Google.org for #AI science research.
The funding will help the VGL accelerate the production and analysis of high-quality genomes across Earth’s #biodiversity.
A study from @casanovalab.bsky.social shows that autoantibodies in a small subset of the population can allow weakened vaccine viruses to escape control, explaining some adverse events tied to one kind of Chikungunya vaccine, which is no longer available in the U.S.
As Rockefeller celebrates our 125th anniversary in 2026, follow along as we share our top 25 discoveries, which have changed science and the course of human health.
In 1943, Rockefeller’s Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty demonstrated that #DNA carries an organism’s genetic information. Their discovery launched a scientific revolution that’s placed genetics at the core of modern biomedical science.
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A recent study from the #FreiwaldLab found that emotion-driven facial expressions activate the same cortical pathways as do voluntary movements, such as chewing.
Learn more in this piece from @thetransmitter.bsky.social:
New work from Gaby Maimon in @cellpress.bsky.social uncovers an electrical trick that allows neurons to compute direction efficiently by juggling multiple signaling mechanisms. The study advances our understanding of how brains compute at a fundamental level.
🔗: https://bit.ly/4r0k1pX
Rockefeller's Paul Cohen helps explain what poor metabolic health is and how it can wreak havoc on the body in this piece from @nytimes.com:
Emil C. Gotschlich, born #OTD, was recognized with a #LaskerAward for his development of a polysaccharide vaccine to prevent #meningitis. 🧪
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A study in @science.org from Paul Cohen's lab, led by @maschakoenen.bsky.social, demonstrates how beige fat directly influences blood pressure. The findings offer a new target for treating vascular disease and could lead to more precise therapies for hypertension: https://bit.ly/4pK0hGh
Rockefeller's Jean-Laurent Casanova is featured in this @nature.com piece by @dianakwon.bsky.social on how genetic mutations can weaken the immune system and make people more vulnerable to certain infections: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
For decades, scientists have designed drugs to slow down or block enzymes, but Tarun Kapoor wondered if tackling some diseases requires the opposite approach.
We spoke with Kapoor about why speeding up an enzyme is so difficult, and how his team is cracking this problem.
See the full Q&A here:
