Yale Professor Edward Zigler, who is credited with conceiving programs and policies such as Head Start and family leave, has been awarded a $250,000 gift from the Heinz Family Foundation. Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology and of the Yale Child...
A newly discovered “Ras” protein, which is related to a group known to be a factor in nearly 30 percent of all human tumors, has been identified by a Yale professor. “There are three known Ras proteins,” said Sankar Ghosh, associate professor in the...
President Clinton has awarded Yale University Mathematician Ronald Coifman the National Medal of Science, which is the highest recognition of its kind in the country.
“This is like winning the lottery,” said Coifman, the Phillips Professor of Mathematics...
Students at Hill Regional Career Magnet High School in New Haven are learning science with the only microscope of its kind to be found in a public school in Connecticut. The Zeiss EM109 electron microscope, worth more than some city schools’ annual...
A new light sensitive drug used to treat the most severe form of macular degeneration, which is the leading cause of blindness in people over 50, is being tested at Yale School of Medicine. The drug, verteporfin, is expected to receive approval by the U...
A Yale researcher has discovered that it is not necessary to have a greasy core in order to fold a protein, which is a whole new way of looking at these critical molecules. Protein folds within each cell are of great interest to researchers,...
A $24 million gift from business entrepreneur John Malone will allow Yale to proceed with a new building for its engineering programs, President Richard C. Levin announced today. The engineering building, and the Malone gift that supports it, is part of...
Absence of a gene linked to a potentially fatal kidney disease causes the kidney, pancreas and heart to develop abnormally, Yale researchers say. The significance of these findings, as well as related discoveries in the same report, said Stefan Somlo, M...
The total lunar eclipse January 20 will cast the Moon in shadow for almost 78 minutes, says Yale Astronomy and Physics Professor Bradley Schaefer. “No equipment is needed to observe the eclipse, although binoculars do improve the view,” said Schaefer. “...
The United States embargo against Cuba has contributed to several public health catastrophes, among them an epidemic of blindness due to a dramatic decrease in the supply of nutrients, a Yale physician says. There also have been epidemics of infants...