Though 30% of the global burden of disease is treatable through surgery, surgeon-scientists make up less than 2% of U.S. researchers who receive funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a new Yale-led study finds. This underrepresentation...
In high school, Chelsey R. Carter volunteered with an organization that helps people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an experience that shaped the researcher she has become. She is now an assistant professor at Yale School of Public Health...
After a person eats, the gut dispatches a series of signals to the brain conveying the presence of nutrients, a phenomenon that scientists believe may help regulate eating behavior. However, in a new study led by Yale’s Mireille Serlie, researchers found...
Black men are the most common victims of killings committed by off-duty police officers in the U.S., according to a new Yale-led study.
In an analysis of 242 incidences in which people were killed by police officers when they were off duty between 2013...
Yale researchers have found that liver fibrosis — scarring of the liver tissue that occurs in many chronic liver diseases — is associated with reduce cognitive ability and, in certain regions of the brain, reduced brain volume. And this connection may be...
The transition from mentored to independent research is an important career junction for biomedical researchers. A new Yale-led study finds that women researchers in the United States reach that point at lower rates than men.
The findings, researchers say...
Cancer cells with extra chromosomes depend on those chromosomes for tumor growth, a new Yale study reveals, and eliminating them prevents the cells from forming tumors. The findings, said the researchers, suggest that selectively targeting extra...
The ability to map connections between different regions of the brain has helped scientists better understand the brain’s relationship to behavior, how brains differ between people, and how they’re affected by disease. These maps, called connectomes,...
Dr. Haripriya Ayyala is a microsurgeon. That means she works on very small pieces of tissue — including blood vessels and lymphatic channels that can be a millimeter in size or smaller — to reconstruct parts of the body damaged by cancer. As a researcher...
Genetic and neurobiological factors shape the development of eating disorders much earlier than previously thought, with evidence emerging in children as young as 9 years old, Yale-led research reveals. The findings, researchers say, highlight the need...