Building upon a grant made in 2003 that established the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale, The Kavli Foundation has announced that it will contribute additional endowment funds to diversify and strengthen the institute’s interdisciplinary brain...
After years of detective work, physicians at Yale School of Medicine have recovered, and are now making public, long-lost medical records of the first patient to receive intravenous chemotherapy treatment for cancer, a seminal event that took place at...
J.D. was dying. He had massive tumors in and around his neck that had choked off his ability to eat, sleep, breathe well and turn his head. Months of radiation treatment had done little to no good. He had only one hope: an experimental treatment that...
No matter their size or shape, explosive volcanoes produce tremors at similar frequencies for minutes, days or weeks before they erupt. In the Feb. 24 issue of the journal Nature, researchers at Yale University and the University of British Columbia...
Clinicians have often referred to ultrasound technology as the “stethoscope of the future,” predicting that as the equipment shrinks in size, it will one day be as common at the bedside as that trusty tool around every physician’s neck. According to a new...
No matter their size or shape, explosive volcanoes produce tremors at similar frequencies for minutes, days or weeks before they erupt. In the Feb. 24 issue of the journal Nature, researchers at Yale University and the University of British Columbia...
The differing ways in which government officials and advocates serve the public interest will be explored in “Collaboration, Cooperation, and Confrontation: (En)Countering Disagreement in Pursuit of Social Justice,” being held Thursday-Friday, March 3-4,...
Faced with the risk of developing side effects, even ones as mild as fatigue, nausea and fuzzy thinking, many older patients are willing to forego medications that provide only average benefit in preventing heart attack, according to a report by Yale...
Imagine a material that’s stronger than steel, but just as versatile as plastic, able to take on a seemingly endless variety of forms. For decades, materials scientists have been trying to come up with just such an ideal substance, one that could be...
Small ants may use fewer resources, but energy-hogging big ants tend to win evolution’s turf wars, according to a study by Yale scientists.Scientists had believed that, at the population level at least, the body size of individuals made no difference in...