Press Releases

• Biologist Rockman Awarded Ellison Fellowship to study Ageing. (10/26/09)
  
• Biologists Find Stem Cell-Like Functions in Other Types of Plant Cells  (01/28/09)

• CO2 Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge by Tyler Volk (11/20/08)

• Richard Bonneau, Professor of Biology & Computer Science Named by Discover Magazine as one of "20 Best Brains in Science under 40 in 2008" (11/18/08)
• NYU Biologists Identify Genes That Prevent Changes in Physical Traits Due to Environmental Changes (11/03/08)
  
• NYU Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, American Museum of Natural History Receive $1.6 Million NSF Grant to Explore Plant Evolution, Create Public Database (9/3/08)
• A Gene for Sexual Switching in Melons Provides Clues to the Evolution of Sex (8/07/08)
• Systems Biology Approach Identifies Nutrient Regulation of the Circadian Clock in Plants (3/20/2008)
• NYU Receives $1.5 Million from New York State for Stem Cell Research (1/15/2008)
• Sightless Parent Fish Don't Produce Just Sightless Hybrids (1/15/2008)
• The Amygdaloids in Science (1/11/2008)
• Scientists Model a Genome's Every Move (12/28/2007)
• Evolution Is Deterministic, Not Random, Biologists Conclude from Multi-Species Study (11/19/2007)
• Professor Claude Desplan Named Fellow of the AAAS 2007/08 (10/25/2007)
• NYU's Center for Genomics & Systems Biology Receives $4.4 Million NSF Grant to Seed New Research in Plant Systems Biology (10/15/2007)
• NYU's Center for Comparative Functional Genomics Part of $57 Million MOD-ENCODE Consortium (5/14/2007)
• Regressive Evolution in Cavefish: Natural Selection or Genetic Drift: Genome Biology (Borowsky, NYU Biology) (2/15/2007)
• NYU Biology Professor Purugganan Named Guggenheim Fellow in April 2006 (4/6/2006)
• Nature Interview with NYU Biologist Claude Desplan (3/9/2006)
• Mammals, Fruit Flies: Same Biological Clock (3/6/2006)
• Genetic Analysis of Cavefish Reveals More About Evolution (12/19/2005)
• NYU Researchers Discover Mechanism Linking Color Vision and Cancer Genes (9/8/2005)
• NYU Biologists Map Out Early Stages of Embryo Formation (8/10/2005)
• NYU's Center for Comparative Functional Genomics Helps to Unravel the Function of MicroRNAs (6/30/2005)
• Study by NYU's Center For Comparative Functional Genomics, Rockefeller Researchers Finds Staggering Complexity of Gene Regulation Executed by MicroRNA Genes (4/4/2005)
• NYU Study Reveals How Brain's Immune System Fights Viral Encephalitis (3/16/2005)
• NYU and MSKCC Research Provides Model for Understanding Chemically Induced Cancer Initiation (3/9/2005)
• Researchers Find New Genes Necessary to Make Embryo (1/31/2005)
• Interview with Professor Reiss (1/2005)
• Flies on Crack: New Study Isolates Gene Mutation Responsive to Cocaine (11/22/2004)
• MicroRNA Study Points to Novel Path for Treating Diabetes (11/10/2004)
• NY Plant Genomics "Dream Team" Wins $5 Million NSF Grant (9/20/2004)