Using X–ray crystallography, researchers at Yale have “seen” the structural basis for antibiotic resistance to common pathogenic bacteria, facilitating design of a new class of antibiotic drugs, according to an article in Cell. In recent years, common...
Alvin Novick. (Photo by John Curtis.)(Full Size Image) Alvin Novick, 79, physician, biologist, Yale University professor, and AIDS community leader, died on April 10, 2005 in New Haven. He had prostate cancer. Professor Novick taught biology at...
Researchers at Yale Cancer Center working on an innovative treatment for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) have received one of two grants from the Connecticut Department of Public Health resulting from Tobacco Master Settlement Funds that allocated...
The Adopt–A–Doc Program in the Department of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine has launched a pilot project called Building Medical Homes to promote the care and services pediatric patients receive. Funded in 2001 by the Community Foundation for...
Yale School of Medicine’s Pediatric Asthma Care Team will provide asthma screenings for the community at Dave McDermott Auto Group, 55 Main St., East Haven on Saturday, April 30 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. In honor of World Asthma Day (May 3), physicians and...
A possible link between lack of sleep (insomnia) and obesity has been traced to hypocretin/orexin cells in the hypothalamus region of the brain that are easily excited and sensitive to stress, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the April issue...
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) will host the 7th Annual AIDS Science Day on Friday, April 22 at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, 155 Temple St. CIRA–affiliated scientists from Yale, the Hispanic Health Council and The Institute...
Desir (l) and Xu (r) with dialysis machine they hope to make obsolete.(Full Size Image) Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven identified a novel human kidney protein called renalase that...
MicroCT analysis of bone from mice with (M+/M+) and without (M-/M-) IRAK-M.(Full Size Image) Scientists at the Yale School of Medicine identified a molecule in osteoclasts, IRAK-M, that is a key regulator of bone mass. Osteoclasts are cells...
In a study of mothers with a history of preeclampsia, a hypertension complication in pregnancy affecting five percent of all women, researchers at Yale have found that these women have an increased lifetime risk for cardiovascular illness and death. “...