A new method of growing arteries could lead to a “biological bypass”—a non-invasive way to treat coronary artery disease—Yale School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues report in the April issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.Coronary...
Long-time Yale faculty member Jonathan Spence, one of the world’s leading experts on Chinese history and culture, has been selected by the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) to deliver the 2010 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities.The NEH-sponsored...
A Yale-led study reveals, for the first time, the process by which a particular genetic mutation causes seizures and ataxia, the neurodegenerative disorder believed to have afflicted Abraham Lincoln. The study appears online in the Early Edition of the...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin today announced the appointment of Rakesh Mohan as Professor in the Practice of International Economics and Finance in the Yale School of Management, and as Senior Fellow in the Jackson Institute for Global...
Flowering plants may have appeared on earth tens of millions of years earlier than the fossil record indicates, suggests a new analysis by researchers at Yale University and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, published the week of March 15 in the...
An international team led by Yale University has, for the first time, measured the mass of a type of supernova thought to belong to a unique subclass and confirmed that it surpasses what was believed to be an upper mass limit. Their findings, which appear...
“Diary of an Infidel,” a short, one-act play adapted from a story by surgeon-writer Dr. Richard Selzer, will be performed in the McNeill Lecture Hall of the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, on April 24 at 8 p.m. and April 25 at 2 p.m....
Yale scientists and researchers now have a comprehensive online tool they can use to share and discuss research projects, data, lab protocols, results, news of clinical trials and advances in clinical care.It is called the YCCI Research Accelerator (RA),...
For a brief instant, it appears, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island recently discovered a law of nature had been broken.Action still resulted in an equal and opposite reaction, gravity kept the Earth circling the Sun, and...
When Jo Handelsman was 16 years old, she read a book by the late Yale plant physiologist Arthur Galston and became convinced her ambition to help feed the world was not misplaced.More than three decades later, she occupies the late Galston’s former office...