A team led by Yale University scientists has developed a new approach to studying how immune cells chase down bacteria in our bodies. Their findings are described in the November 15 issue of Nature Methods Advanced Online Publication.When bacteria enter...
A protein found in the saliva of ticks helps protect mice from developing Lyme disease, Yale researchers have discovered. The findings, published in the November 19 issue of Cell Host & Microbe, may spur development of a new vaccine against infection...
Determining what triggers the death of retinal cells, called photoreceptors, could hold the key to stopping blinding disorders caused by a wide range of eye diseases, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the November issue of Investigative...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that exaggerated responses of the immune system explain why the elderly succumb to viral infections more readily than younger people. Published in the November 19 Cell Host & Microbe, the study bucks...
Yale is offering breast cancer experts from the Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven to speak on the controversial new guidelines on who should get mammograms, and the effectiveness of breast self-examination.They are: Lyndsay...
To ensure efficient and continuous access to the major federally funded student loan programs used by students, Yale will convert from the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program, funded by private lenders, to the Federal Direct Loan (DL) program...
Dr. Robert J. Alpern is about to begin his second five-year term as dean of the Yale School of Medicine.With over 1,000 students, almost 2,000 faculty and a budget approaching $1 billion, the enterprise over which Alpern presides is by far the largest of...
At the center of the sprawling 136-acre West Campus are three buildings that will house scientists who are using three distinct technologies yet who share an underlying mission: transforming the way biological research is conducted at Yale.“New...
The Yale Baroque Opera Project (YBOP) will present its fifth biannual fully-staged production, “Le tre Stagioni” (“The Three Seasons”), a pastiche of scenes from operatic and oratorio works by George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), on December 5 and 6 at...
November 24 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. The seminal work continues to change how we look at the world, with scientists daily uncovering new examples of how natural selection shapes life. Many...