In a recognition of the excellence of scientific inquiry in Yale’s chemistry department, three Yale professors have been named recipients of national 2012 awards from the American Chemical Society.“These awards from the American Chemical Society inspire...
If the brain goes hungry, Twinkies look a lot better, a study led by researchers at Yale University and the University of Southern California has found.Brain imaging scans show that when glucose levels drop, an area of the brain known to regulate emotions...
Arthur L. Horwich of the Yale School of Medicine was named co-winner of the prestigious 2011 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for his discoveries of how proteins form their complex shapes, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced Monday....
Evolution adds and subtracts, and nowhere is this math more evident than in vertebrates, which are programmed to have five digits on each limb. But many species do not. Snakes, of course, have no digits, and birds have three.Yale scientists now have a...
Yale researchers have discovered the source of signals that trigger hair growth, an insight that may lead to new treatments for baldness.The researchers identified stem cells within the skin’s fatty layer and showed that molecular signals from these cells...
Yale University researchers have identified a key genetic gear that keeps the circadian clock of plants ticking, a finding that could have broad implications for global agriculture.The research appears in the Sept. 2 issue of the journal Molecular Cell.“...
Yale researchers are recipients of this year’s prestigious National Institutes of Health Director Awards, a program geared to promote bold and innovative scientific ideas.Two Yale researchers are recipients of New Innovator grants each worth $1.5 million...