This month, Insights & Outcomes dissects the demographics of clinical trials for new cancer drugs, gets real about childhood obesity, dives into ancient oceans to learn about the carbon cycle, and draws a parallel between the density of the universe...
Yale scientists have for the first time identified a volatile pheromone emitted by the tsetse fly, a blood-sucking insect that spreads diseases in both humans and animals across much of sub-Saharan Africa. The discovery offers new insights into how the...
Insights & Outcomes welcomes the start of summer break with an honor for a Yale applied mathematician, a protein that multitasks, new insights into some colorful sediments, and a new way to study a key area of the human brain.
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This month, Insights & Outcomes is coming at you with all the feels — from the neurological underpinnings of vicarious thrills and the biological network that influences cravings, to the brain’s connections to physical frailty and the queasiness that...
This month, Insights & Outcomes begins the academic year with some revelations about certain rapid eye movements, new research on the relationship between substance abuse and the tendency to overgeneralize, and details of a trio of faculty honors.
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In a common metaphor used to describe human fertilization, sperm cells are competitors racing to penetrate a passive egg. But as critics have noted, the description is also a “fairy tale” rooted in cultural beliefs about masculinity and femininity.
A new...
This month, Insights & Outcomes searches for evidence of atmospheric rivers thousands of years ago, explores the inner workings of a pair of important proteins, takes a hard look at access to liver transplants, and tracks neural patterns relating to...
Craig M. Crews, the John C. Malone Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a pioneer in the pharmaceutical field of targeted protein degradation, has been named the winner of the 2024 Kimberly...
On the Yale campus, the year 2023 was marked by transformative change.
New campus initiatives set the stage for the cross-disciplinary research necessary to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges, and the space to do it. A groundbreaking research...