Yale University is seeking adults between the ages of 70 and 89 to take part in a lifestyle intervention study to determine whether exercise or health education can prevent or delay major mobility disability in older adults.Little is known about whether...
Almost a decade after the first draft of the human genome was published, scientists now know that many differences among individuals arise not only from the content of their genes but where and when those genes are expressed.Now a Yale-led team of...
Yale Environment 360 has won the award for best video in the 2010 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media for an original report that it produced and posted on the site about mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia.The video, “Leveling Appalachia...
Yale Professor Jacob Hacker, who has helped to craft policies that are the foundation of health care reform, can provide answers to many questions of interest to ordinary citizens. A seasoned commentator with significant media experience, Professor Hacker...
Yale University will launch a new Yale Publishing Course this summer, bringing emerging industry leaders from around the world together with experts in their respective fields to tackle the most compelling issues facing publishers. The first session will...
For the first time, Yale researchers have identified common genetic variants that predispose lean individuals to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and insulin resistance. NAFLD is now the most common chronic liver disease in the U.S. and insulin...
Hormone therapy seems to preserve the memories of women just entering menopause but is of little benefit to older women and leaves them at increased risk of breast cancer, heart disease and stroke, according to a research team at Yale University.A new...
Newly created brain cells lacking a critical receptor do not survive a long migration to join complex neural networks, a Yale University research team reports March 25 in the journal Neuron.Understanding this molecular mechanism involved in neurogenesis...
In recognition of 40 years of coeducation at Yale, several generations of Yale affiliated women, from the pioneering female students who graduated with the Class of 1971 to current students and faculty, will meet on the weekend of March 26–28 to take...
The founder of Time magazine Henry R. Luce will be the subject of a discussion with historians Alan Brinkley and Lance Morrow at Yale on March 25, at 5 p.m.Free and open to the public, the discussion, titled “Henry R. Luce and the 20th Century,” will take...