A Yale-led team of doctors has discovered how aortic aneurysms — bulges that weaken the wall of the biggest blood vessel leading to the heart — form in the human body.
Aortic aneurysms lead to about 10,000 deaths a year in the United States. Most of those...
As the world grapples with waves of patients from the coronavirus pandemic, Yale has moved aggressively to make emergency campus housing available for medical personnel on the front lines of the fight against the virus.
By April 3, Yale had prepared 300...
One of the biggest challenges facing scientists, public health experts, and society itself during the COVID-19 crisis is the need to develop an effective vaccine for the virus that causes the disease.
Researchers around the world are racing to develop...
The multi-hospital Yale New Haven Health system will assume operation of Yale University’s Lanman Center field hospital in a collaboration that increases the system’s patient capacity and enables expanded access to medical care for the people of greater...
A week after Yale closed its labs to all but the most critical work amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Eric Paulson, director of the Chemical and Biophysical Instrumentation Center (CBIC), got a request.
New England Discovery Partners, a small, contract research...
Yale technology is giving astronomers a closer look at the atmosphere of a distant planet where it’s so hot the air contains vaporized metals.
The planet, MASCARA-2 b, is 140 parsecs from Earth — or roughly 2.68 quadrillion miles. It’s a gas giant, like...
Long before the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic, the Yale Genome Editing Center (YGEC) was a valuable resource for preserving genetic data for important medical and biological research.
The center’s scientists genetically engineer research colonies...
Professor Scott J. Miller has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
The academy selected 120 new members and 26 international members during...
Matteo Fabbri’s happy place is halfway up a steep hill of earth and rocks in the Sahara Desert.
There, beneath the broiling Moroccan sun and tons of burnt-orange dirt, are the fossilized remains of a dinosaur with a fin. Fabbri, a 30-year-old graduate...
Behind every good idea for a drug to fight COVID-19, there’s often a good library of chemicals.
At Yale, that library is at the Yale Center for Molecular Discovery (YCMD) — home to collections of 300,000 small molecules and 18,000 genomic probes....