Researchers at Yale University have succeeded in making RNA biochips, which in the future may be engineered to detect a wide range of compounds important in medicine, industry and even for biological and chemical warfare defense. “We should be able to...
Steady tectonic motions are causing the European Alps to grow at the same rate that they are eroded, a study by Yale researchers concludes. The result is that this classic mountain belt has maintained its present size for more than 15 million years. “...
Siblings who are addicted to cocaine and opioids, among them morphine, codeine and heroin, are being recruited for Yale University-led studies to determine the locations of genes that increase risk for cocaine, opioid and tobacco addictions. The study...
University Properties announces the grand opening of Gourmet Heaven, a grocery, delicatessen and food shop serving the Yale community and the New Haven community adjacent to the Broadway District. New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. will join Bruce...
The vaccine for chickenpox, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1995, is highly effective in preventing chickenpox or minimizing the severity of the disease in children, according to a study by researchers at Yale. “We know from these...
A Yale University professor, Stephen Strittmatter, M.D., has received an award of $300,000 to support his research into the extent to which axons can rearrange themselves and recover after injuries to the nervous system. The Memory and Brain Disorders...
Scientist and government officials will speak at Yale University School of Medicine April 3 during the Fourth Annual Genaissance Pharmacogenetics and Medicine Lectures. The purpose of the meeting is to provide an update on the scientific, medical,...
A research project evaluating an intervention for low income women to see what would motivate them to get a mammogram revealed that they responded more positively to multicultural messages rather than those targeted to specific ethnic groups. The...
Women who are HIV-positive and depressed are twice as likely to die as women who are HIV-positive but experiencing limited or no depressive symptoms, a study by a Yale researcher shows. The findings were published in the March 21 issue of the Journal of...
Men with chronic schizophrenia lose brain volume at a faster rate than the normal aging changes seen in men without the mental illness, a study by a researcher at Yale shows. “We found that there was evidence of progressive decline in brain volume in...