Rummaging through a biotechnology company’s chemical closet, Yale University researchers found two molecules that will allow scientists to better study how cells move. The study in the journal Nature, published online Aug. 2, describes how two small...
To combat the many fetal deaths that occur annually because the placenta is too small, researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a method to measure the volume of the placenta, which provides nourishment to the fetus. Limits in current...
Yale University researchers have discovered how a protein within most cell membranes helps maintain normal cell size, a breakthrough in basic biology that has implications for a variety of diseases such as sickle cell anemia and disorders of the nervous...
A team of astronomers has measured the motions of stars in a very distant galaxy for the first time and discovered they are whizzing around at astonishingly high speeds—about one million miles per hour, or twice the speed at which the Sun circles our own...
In post-colonial America, Lyme disease was isolated to a few islands along the Northeast coast and pockets of Wisconsin and Minnesota. But a new genetic analysis of the Lyme bacterium by Yale researchers shows that the tick-borne disease roared back after...
Yale Law School graduate Sonia Sotomayor ’79 made history today when she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 111th justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. She is the first Hispanic ever to sit on the Supreme Court and the third woman. Yale Law School...
Fewer black women with postgraduate degrees are getting married and having children, according to a study by the Yale Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course, which was presented at the 104th annual meeting of the American Sociological...
Exhibitions showcasing the latest innovations in green residential architecture and the groundbreaking Las Vegas Studio of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown in addition to the work of their firm will be on view at the gallery of the newly renovated...
Yale University Properties welcomes Kerin boutique to 268 York St. in the Broadway Retail District. Kerin boutique, opening this fall, will offer smart fashions for the eco-conscious woman. Quality designer items include shoes, handbags, apparel,...
The Yale World Fellows have arrived on campus for an intensive semester of global leadership development. This is the eighth year that Yale has hosted a competitively selected group of international emerging leaders from a range of sectors such as...