A team of Yale University scientists has engineered the cell wall of the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, tricking it into incorporating foreign small molecules and embedding them within the cell wall.The finding, described online in the journal ACS...
Scientists once believed that proteins govern most cellular activities. However in recent years scientists have found that a diverse group of RNA molecules regulate numerous biological activities. Despite their ancient origin, these RNA molecules have...
Last Friday, a bright, crisp October morning, about 125 men and women gathered in Amistad Park, donned pink hard hats and assembled themselves into a human pink ribbon — the international symbol of breast cancer awareness. Their goal was to urge all women...
Yale University’s Nancy Moran, the William H. Fleming Professor of Biology, has been awarded the International Prize for Biology by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science for her work on symbiotic relationships between insects and bacteria that...
During Elon Musk’s recent appearance on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert asked his guest: “Where do you find time for your secret identity as Batman?” The audience burst into laughter.It was just another punch line, but Colbert’s comparison of...
Election to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) is one of the most prestigious awards a person working in the healthcare field can receive. So when 5 of 65 newly elected IOM members hail from the same medical school — as has happened at Yale — that can make a...
Yale University researchers have developed a tool for biodiversity conservation in the face of global change: a statistical model that helps predict the risk of extinction for almost 90% of the world’s bird species.“Our global study confirms and extends...
The food chain — the number of organisms that feed on each other — in the world’s streams and rivers depends more upon the size of the stream and whether the waterways flood or run dry than the amount of available food resources, Yale University and...
Lowering levels of a key protein involved in regulating learning and memory—STtriatal-Enriched tyrosine Phosphatase (STEP)—reversed cognitive deficits in mice with Alzheimer’s disease, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the October 18 issue of...
It turns out that the diet of the undisputed king of the dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, didn’t just include other dinosaurs, but also other T. rex. Paleontologists from the United States and Canada have found bite marks on the giants’ bones that were made...