The diagnosis of mental illnesses such as major depression, schizophrenia, or anxiety disorder is typically based on coarse groupings of symptoms. These symptoms, however, vary widely among individuals as do the brain circuits that cause them. This...
Five aspiring entrepreneurs from the Yale community have been selected to pitch their startup ideas to business professionals at the university’s first Dolphin Tank. The Innovators from Yale University Dolphin Tank® event is a “friendly-feedback” session...
This month, Insights & Outcomes kicks off the new semester with a dash of quantum chemistry, a smidgen of beta cells and choosy enzymes, and a bunch of spud-spoiling bacteria.
As always, you can find more science and medicine research news on Yale...
One of the great mysteries of human biology is how a single cell can give rise to the 37 trillion cells contained in the average body, each with its own specialized role. Researchers at Yale University and the Mayo Clinic have devised a way to recreate...
The small intestine is ground zero for survival of animals. It is responsible for absorbing the nutrients crucial to life, and it wards off toxic chemicals and life-threatening bacteria.
In a new study published March 18 in the journal Science, Yale...
Yale researchers have agreed to develop, deploy, and test a new portable MRI scanner, a device its developer hopes will cost a fraction of that of traditional MRIs and make the new imaging technology available in clinics in the U.S. and around the world....
President Peter Salovey and other Yale luminaries joined experts from around the globe at the World Economic Forum (WEF), held Jan. 23-26 in Davos, Switzerland.
Read President Salovey’s account of his visit there in the latest edition of Notes from...