Pregnancy in humans has typically been studied as an anti-inflammatory process, where a mother’s immune system is suppressed to protect the fetus from attack.
Why inflammation — a major cause of morning sickness — is necessary for initiating pregnancy,...
Yale scientist Nikhil Malvankar has been named a recipient of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award.
An assistant professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale, Malvankar is one of 55 scientists to receive the...
Yale scientists with colleagues at University College London have taken the next step towards unravelling how cells work together during wound closure, a question that could be fundamental to determining optimal healing rates after injury or disease. ...
Soon after its 2017 installation at Yale’s West Campus, the new Titan Krios Cryo-Electron Microscope — or CryoEM, the technology at the center of the growing ‘resolution revolution’ and the tool used by three recent Nobel Prize winners — is beginning to...
Membrane fusion is an important reaction, required for tissue development, viral infection, hormone release, and neurotransmission. But until now, few methods have examined the dynamic “pores” that regulate the release of cargo carried by secretory...