The NPC is far more than a molecular gate. “It’s a nexus for integration of information,” Rockefeller's Mike Rout says. “And I think if the cell had thoughts, that would be how it thinks of its nuclear pores.” In @quantamagazine.bsky.social, by @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social:

In 1928, Rebecca Lancefield discovered the M protein, the key to understanding how Streptococci-related diseases are acquired and spread. Over the next six decades, she classified thousands of strep strains. The Lancefield Grouping is still used today. #125YearsofRockefeller

Rockefeller's Jeff Friedman has been named a #Forbes250 Greatest Innovator! @forbes.com#Forbes250recognizes Friedman for his discovery of the weight-regulating hormone leptin, ushering in a new medical era. Congratulations, Jeff!

Congrats to our own @danielkronauer.bsky.social, who has been selected as this year's winner of the Distinguished Naturalist Award from the American Society of Naturalists! Kronauer's work has shed light on the structure, function, and evolution of ant societies:

Rockefeller's Gabriel Victora (@victora.bsky.social) has been elected as a #AAASFellow by @aaas.org#AAASFellow He is recognized for outstanding contributions in identifying how germinal centers refine antibody responses to infection and immunization. Congrats!

In a new @science.org study, Rockefeller’s @thefuchslab.bsky.social has identified distinct genetic sequences of long-term inflammatory memory that can lead to chronic inflammatory skin diseases such as #psoriasis. 🔗: https://bit.ly/4m57vV1

We wrote a review on using machine learning to study evolutionary genetics and molecular evolution in Trends in Genetics. It is open access—please take a look if you are interested in this topic www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social

Microtubules have been viewed as passive structural supports, but a study from @hirofunabiki.bsky.social in @science.org Advances redefines microtubules as active regulators, helping to prevent abnormalities in the number of chromosomes, a hallmark of cancer. 🔗: https://bit.ly/4v8miCC

Zehao Zhang (@tommyz626.bsky.social), a graduate fellow in the Cao lab (@junyuecao.bsky.social) at Rockefeller, has been selected as a 2026 Schmidt Science Fellow for his work on how the immune system regulates itself and what causes it to fail. Congratulations!

A study from Rockefeller's @danielkronauer.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social finds that ants continually update their sense of nestmate identity and tolerance for outsiders, a discovery that opens the door to studying the neural circuits behind social recognition. 🔗:https://bit.ly/4sukQIR

Farewell winter, hello spring! 🌷 🐝 🌱 Thanks to Maureen Walter and Lori Chertoff for capturing these scenes on our beautiful campus.

Most mass spectrometers still analyze molecules one or just a few at a time. Now, a new MultiQ-IT prototype from Rockefeller's Brian Chait can cool, trap, filter, and redirect over a billion ions simultaneously. 🔗: https://bit.ly/47FWUd6

The latest issue of Rockefeller's #SeekMagazine is here! Feature stories cover new research that could vastly improve immunotherapy, the molecular machines vital to repairing our DNA, how brains are wired for communication and collaboration, and more: https://seek.rockefeller.edu/

Researchers in the former #AllisLab discovered that removing a specific region within a protein complex that regulates cell differentiation halts certain types of #cancer, including breast, prostate, blood, and skin cancers. @genesdev.bsky.social

With researchers and Big Pharma now racing to improve blockbuster GLP-1 weight loss drugs, leptin—discovered by Rockefeller's Jeff Friedman—has resurfaced as a promising candidate. Read more in this piece from @medscape.com:

Rockefeller's Michael Rout has spent decades studying the the nuclear pore complex. We spoke with him about what makes this molecular machinery so remarkable and how this work could lead to new treatments for #cancer and #viraldiseases: www.rockefeller.edu/news/39142-t...

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. 🔗: https://bit.ly/3NjZEWD

Vote now for Rockefeller! 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#STATMadness 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. 🔗: https://bit.ly/4s8QScX

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

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. #125YearsofRockefeller

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.

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. #125YearsOfRockefeller

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. 🧪 The Rockefeller University https://ow.ly/bxE750Umu7T https://ow.ly/tS1B50Umu7R

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:

Congratulations to Rockefeller's Svetlana Mojsov, who has been named the 2026 recipient of the King Faisal Prize in Medicine! She is recognized for her groundbreaking work on GLP-1, research that has transformed the treatment of diabetes and obesity.

A new study suggests that primate facial expressions may not just be reflex

A new study in @science.org from Rockefeller's Winrich Freiwald demonstrates how neural circuits in the brain and muscles of the face work together to respond physically to social cues, findings that may lead to improved brain-machine interfaces that help people with brain injuries communicate.

We are saddened to share that Konstantin Goulianos, a member of the Rockefeller community since 1971, has passed away. Goulianos was a renowned particle physicist who contributed to the discovery of fundamental building blocks of matter.

The late James Hudspeth achieved a groundbreaking technological advancement before his death: the ability to keep a mammalian cochlea alive outside the body for the first time. A new piece in Popular Mechanics discusses his work:

Bittar, Nussenzweig et al. @rockefeller.edu describe expanded clones of authentic CD4+ T cell carrying intact latent HIV-1 proviruses derived from people living with #HIV. Their transcriptome mirrors their primary cells of origin. rupress.org/jem/article/...