A possible link between lack of sleep (insomnia) and obesity has been traced to hypocretin/orexin cells in the hypothalamus region of the brain that are easily excited and sensitive to stress, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the April issue...
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) will host the 7th Annual AIDS Science Day on Friday, April 22 at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, 155 Temple St. CIRA–affiliated scientists from Yale, the Hispanic Health Council and The Institute...
Desir (l) and Xu (r) with dialysis machine they hope to make obsolete.(Full Size Image) Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven identified a novel human kidney protein called renalase that...
MicroCT analysis of bone from mice with (M+/M+) and without (M-/M-) IRAK-M.(Full Size Image) Scientists at the Yale School of Medicine identified a molecule in osteoclasts, IRAK-M, that is a key regulator of bone mass. Osteoclasts are cells...
A centuries-old singing tradition in Scotland , found by Yale professor and jazz musician Willie Ruff to be an ancestor of African-American singing traditions in the Deep South , will be celebrated at a Yale conference May 5-6. Singers from the Scottish...
Leaders of national civil rights organizations will join with legal scholars, social scientists, historians, and practitioners from across the country for “Lessons From the Past, Prospects for the Future: Honoring the Fortieth Anniversary of the Voting...
Elisha Atkins, M.D., professor emeritus of internal medicine/infectious diseases at Yale School of Medicine, and an expert in the mechanism and biological importance of fever, died April 22 at age 84 in Belmont, Massachusetts. Atkins’s research on the...
The authors of a report criticizing the environmental movement for failed leadership on global warming will discuss “Post–Environmentalism: Beyond ‘I Have a Nightmare’ Politics” on Friday, May 6, at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium at the Yale School of...
Researchers at Yale, in collaboration with NIH researchers, have identified a specific protein molecule that is used by the immune system for detection of parasitic infections, leading the way for development of future vaccines to combat these infections...
A First Day of Issue ceremony for a series of stamps honoring four American Scientists will be hosted by the U.S. Postal Service at Yale University’s Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. on May 4. The scientists commemorated are thermodynamicist...