Paul Sigler, a Yale University scientist and one of the world’s leading structural biologists, died suddenly January 11 while walking to his laboratory. He was 65. Sigler, who was Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale...
U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala has appointed Yale School of Nursing Associate Dean Margaret Grey, DrPH, PNP, FAAN, to the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research. The council determines how federal dollars for...
The number of “near-Earth asteroids” that have a chance, though miniscule, of colliding with Earth this century is half what was originally estimated, a Yale researcher says. “They are the kind of asteroids you hear about in movies that are about two-...
A Yale researcher has found up to 100 new and very distant RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way that can give valuable clues about the galaxy’s history and composition. Using a large format camera in a telescope at the Llano del hato Observatory in the...
Yale researchers, for the first time, have shown that a particular gene can cause insulin-dependent, or Type I, diabetes. The discovery was made when the researchers induced spontaneous diabetes by injecting an animal model with DQ8, a human gene long...