Yale’s James Rothman, fourth from right, and six other recipients of 2010 Kavli Prizes met President Barack Obama on June 6 in a White House ceremony to celebrate their achievements. Rothman, the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences, was one...
Ruslan M. Medzhitov, the David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine, a member of Yale Cancer Center and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, is one of three scientists awarded the prestigious Shaw Prize in Life...
Eleven Yale professors were among the 35 new members elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) last month. Founded in 1976, CASE is a nonprofit, public service institution patterned after the National Academy of Sciences. The...
The brilliant colors of birds have inspired poets and nature lovers, but researchers at Yale University and the University of Cambridge say these existing hues represent only a fraction of what birds are capable of seeing.The findings based on study of...
The precise wiring of our visual system depends upon the pattern of spontaneous activity within the brain that occurs well before birth, a new study by Yale researchers shows.“It isn’t just the genes. What happens within the womb is crucial,” said Michael...
A team of Yale Cancer Center researchers has confirmed that between 10-20% of breast cancers classified as Estrogen Receptor (ER) negative are really positive. Understanding when and why breast cancers may be misclassified has important implications for...
The Li Ka Shing Foundation (LKSF), a Hong Kong-based philanthropy devoted to advancing education and healthcare, has awarded $1.5 million to Yale University to expand two research core facilities, the human embryonic stem cell core and the genomics core,...
Astronomers have probed into the distant universe and discovered that galaxies display one of two distinct behaviors: they are either awake or asleep, actively forming stars or are not forming any new stars at all.Scientists have known for several years...
Smokers tend to die young, but they tend to die thinner than non-smokers. A team of scientists led by Yale School of Medicine has discovered exactly how nicotine suppresses appetite — findings that suggest that it might be possible to develop a drug that...
In a new study, Yale University researchers have identified a pathway by which reactive oxygen species (ROS) molecules, which are usually implicated in the aging process due to their damage to DNA, can also act as cellular signaling molecules that extend...