Normally, Erika Valdivieso’s scholarly work takes her to far-flung corners of the globe, where she’s able to meet new people and delve into archival material. This is something the pandemic has deprived her of, and she looks forward to a time when she can...
Scientists in recent years have developed ways to measure biological age by tracking chemical changes in DNA that occur naturally as people age but occur at different times in different people. These so-called “epigenetic clocks” have proved to be better...
Yale’s Daniel Spielman, Sterling Professor of Computer Science, professor of statistics and data science, and professor of mathematics, who helped solve a problem that had vexed mathematicians for decades, is co-recipient of the inaugural Ciprian Foias...
Researchers at Yale and the Weizmann Institute of Science have found the first evidence that the human fetus can spontaneously produce insulin outside the pancreas — in the small intestine, specifically — a startling discovery that stands in contrast to...