"This is absolutely amazing, " says Jan Breslow, head of biochemical genetics at Rockefeller University in New York.

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Leslie Vosshall, a scientist at The Rockefeller University in New York, is also on a mission to beat DEET.

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"The brain is very resilient, " said Bruce McEwen , head of the neuroendocrinology laboratory at Rockefeller University in New York City.

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Start an institute like Rockefeller University in New York or the Salk Institute in San Diego, he told him, and bring the best minds of science there.

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For more than two months, researchers at Rockefeller University in New York and Harvard tested several different types of low fat diets on 18 people with normal cholesterol levels, including a diet containing more than half a pound of steamed shrimp a day.

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Roderick MacKinnon, of the Rockefeller University, in New York, worked out the structure of the one that carries potassium.

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According to the Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State University of New York in Albany, the adjusted real increase was just over 2% in the past six months (see chart 2).

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Miriam, an Israeli internist, was at Rockefeller University as a guest investigator on an exchange program, and was living with her two young daughters in a New York apartment.

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Donald Boyd of the Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public-policy research arm of the State University of New York, found that in the recessions of the early 1980s and 1990s state tax revenues declined at about the same rate as the national economy.

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