In @nature.com: Winrich Freiwald's lab has discovered the first evidence of the neural substrates that underlie the basic units of thought. The findings have implications for improving computer-brain interfaces and studying brain disorders. 🔗: https://bit.ly/4dvTzkt

Rockefeller scientists are studying the molecular machines that read, copy, repair, and package DNA. Their findings could change how we prevent and treat diseases, including cancer. Learn more in #SeekMagazine: https://bit.ly/3RmAvfC

Rockefeller's Lamia Wahba studies how information outside the genetic code—epigenetic signals—can pass between generations and what that means for evolution and disease. We spoke to Wahba about how this work could reshape our understanding of heredity: https://bit.ly/4tC29CO

Two techniques from Rockefeller's Junyue Cao—one for optics-free spatial mapping of tissue organization and the other for the enrichment of rare cell types—offer new ways to study aging and disease. 🔗: https://bit.ly/4u8CLpq

A new study in @natmicrobiol.nature.com from Rockefeller's Paul Bieniasz and Theodora Hatziioannou shows the most comprehensive view to date of how some HIV-1 strains develop drug resistance to broadly neutralizing antibodies. 🔗: https://bit.ly/42MYbfT

Herbert Gasser, Rockefeller’s director from 1935 to 1953, discovered that nerves carry different kinds of signals at different speeds, and helped clarify how the nervous system transmits sensation, movement, and pain. In 1944, he shared the @nobelprize.org for this work. #125YearsofRockefeller

Reporter @ellenbarry.bsky.social was searching for answers about what was going on with her father's memory in the final stages of dementia. She turned to Rockefeller's Priya Rajasethupathy. Learn what happened in this piece from @nytimes.com:

Last month, the Nussenzweig lab revealed a new gene editing approach that produces enduring and protective levels of antibodies that have previously been difficult to engineer. The method could offer ways to treat viruses like HIV that can outsmart traditional vaccination approaches.

In @cp-molcell.bsky.social: RNA polymerase, the enzyme that synthesizes RNA from DNA during transcription, has been captured mid-reaction for the first time by scientists in Seth Darst's lab at Rockefeller. 🔗: https://bit.ly/4ur3Vaz

Check out this @science.org paper! Scientists at @rockefeller.edu have discovered that #CRISPR-edited hematopoietic stem cells generate B cells that produce durable, protective antibodies following vaccination. 📄 https://bit.ly/4cJbimv 🎧 https://bit.ly/4vRAGPT

Learn how Rockefeller's Marina Caskey, Michel Nussenzweig and Gabriel Victora are using #BasicScience to build better vaccines in this #SeekMagazine interview: https://bit.ly/4eeE8hc

Jeanne Garbarino, head of RockEDU Science Outreach at Rockefeller, says that persistence in #STEM depends on fostering a culture of high-quality mentoring and long-term engagement. “Students stay in STEM when they feel like they belong.” 🔗: https://bit.ly/424DrQd

Rockefeller's Vanessa Ruta and Thomas Tuschl have been elected to the @nasonline.org! Congratulations 🎉 🔗: https://bit.ly/4vTZgQ8

A new @pnas.org study from the Charles Rice's lab at Rockefeller overturns decades-long assumptions about why the #hepatitis B virus fails to infect mouse liver cells when studying it in an animal model, providing a foundation to develop a much-needed new one. 🔗: https://bit.ly/4sORGDu

This #EarthDay we're featuring Rockefeller's @flamholz.bsky.social#EarthDay who studies how microbes contribute to #climatechange and how they could offer solutions to this problem via their metabolisms.

How do cells convert mechanical information into a molecular process? The @alushinlab.bsky.social has captured the first snapshot of a mechanical signaling complex in action, findings in @nature.com that have implications for disorders related to myosin dysfunction. 🔗: https://bit.ly/41Kshjw

Rockefeller's Shixin Liu is pioneering new ways of studying the tiny proteins that copy and transcribe genetic code. We spoke to Liu about what makes these machines so fascinating and why studying them could shed light on diseases from tuberculosis to cancer: bit.ly/4vGE4gn

In @natcellbio.nature.com: Rockefeller's Birsoy lab has discovered that the antioxidant glutathione plays a vital role in maintaining smooth operations of a protein-producing hub in the cell called the endoplasmic reticulum by acting as a protein “proofreader.” 🔗: https://bit.ly/3Ow8lxM

By editing blood stem cells, the Nussenzweig lab shows that the immune system itself can be transformed into a durable, boostable source of therapeutic proteins--opening the door to potential single-shot treatments for diseases ranging from HIV to cancer. 🔗: https://bit.ly/4cgDoqp

Rockefeller's Margaret Schroeder of the Darnell lab has been named a 2026 #LeonLevyScholar! She is recognized for her work interrogating the molecular underpinnings of local astrocyte-neuron plasticity in health and disease. Congratulations!

A @nature.com study from Rockefeller's @junyuecao.bsky.social describes a new platform called PerturbFate that reveals how diverse genetic perturbations funnel into shared disease states, a method that could unlock therapeutic targets for complex diseases. 🔗: https://bit.ly/4thIsRw

Rockefeller's @danielkronauer.bsky.social comments on new research describing a distinctive partnership between two ant species in which one grooms the other in @nytimes.com:

In 1911, Peyton Rous, a Rockefeller physician, made a discovery with sweeping implications. Viruses can cause cancer. His findings laid the foundation for modern cancer biology. In 1966, Rous won a @nobelprize.org. #125YearsofRockefeller Footage courtesy of NobelPrize.org

Rockefeller scientists, including @danielkronauer.bsky.social, Vanessa Ruta, Winrich Freiwald, Priya Rajasethupathy, and @erichjarvis.bsky.social, are learning what drives social behavior, and also trying to explain what happens when those roots falter. 🔗: https://bit.ly/47J2Q5h

The quieter the sound, the harder your hair bundles work to amplify it. An international team—including members of the Hudspeth lab at Rockefeller—shows that hair bundles sense, amplify, dissipate heat, or even act as tiny refrigerators.

Three years in, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Institute for Global Infectious Disease Research has matured into a working pipeline connecting basic science and emerging therapies:

Researchers in Charles Rice's lab at Rockefeller have created the first mouse model that closely mirrors what happens when people with hepatitis C develop liver cancer, allowing scientists to study how liver virus infection leads to cancer as well as to test treatments. 🔗: https://bit.ly/4dCzhGp

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.