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Thanks for recapping the most intriguing #RockefellerScience stories of 2025 with us, Happy New Year! 👩🏽‍🔬 🥂 🦠 🎉 🧬

See the full 2025 #YearInReview here: https://bit.ly/44LtGrW
January 1, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Scientists in the @alushinlab.bsky.social figured out how cells build a structure that lets them migrate. Unpacking these “finger-like” protein bundles that protrude from cells may lead to novel treatments for #metastasis. #RockefellerScience #YearInReview

🔗: https://bit.ly/3PKErmA
December 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
A study from @danmucida.bsky.social and @victora.bsky.social showed how immune cells in the gut distinguish between food and harmful pathogens, shedding light on the origins of #foodallergies. #RockefellerScience #YearInReview

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December 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A study from the #RutaLab explained how the fruit fly brain coordinates courtship and aggressive competition—a framework which could help scientists understand how the human brain balances cooperation and competition. #RockefellerScience #YearInReview

🔗: https://bit.ly/4gI7phV
December 31, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Neuroscientists have long posited that #memory functions like an on/off switch—either your brain remembers something or it doesn’t. The #RajasethupathyLab discovered that the truth is more complicated. #RockefellerScience #YearInReview

🔗: https://bit.ly/3MoSsrj
December 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Winter break is upon us! Stay tuned as we count down the most intriguing #RockefellerScience stories of 2025. #YearInReview
December 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
In creating the first reference brain for the clonal raider ant, @danielkronauer.bsky.social has discovered a surprising individuality of brain characteristics that may yield new insights into the #neuroscience of individuality within animal societies.
🔗: www.rockefeller.edu/news/38754-a...
December 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
New Rockefeller research from Michael Rout and Brian Chait finds that nuclear pore complex (NPC) machinery is an extraordinarily dynamic system, offering new insights into diseases such as #cancer and #neurodegeneration that are linked to NPC breakdown: https://bit.ly/3KAlrIk
December 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
New #research from Priya Rajasethupathy shows that long-term memory is formed by a cascade of molecular timers across brain regions.
“What we choose to remember is a continuously evolving process rather than a one-time flipping of a switch," she says.
🔗:https://bit.ly/44tpEUT
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM