Breastfeeding boosts infants’ IQs, but only if the babies have a genetic variant that enhances their metabolism of breast milk, a Yale researcher and collaborators report today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.“It is this genetic variant...
Sven-Eric Jordt Two Yale School of Medicine researchers—Susan Kaech and Sven-Eric Jordt—this week each received a Presidential Early Career Award, which is the highest honor that a beginning scientist or...
Intense physical exertion or an extreme emotion, like shoveling snow or anxiety over big gambling losses, can cause a rupture in the main artery leading to and from the heart, according to a Yale School of Medicine study in the American Journal of...
Natalia Ivanova, a young scientist who has already made landmark contributions to stem cell research, will join the Yale School of Medicine Stem Cell Center as assistant professor of genetics and the first Robert McCluskey Yale Scholar.Ivanova comes to...
Charles Greer and Mary Whitman Newly created neurons in adults rely on signals from distant brain regions to regulate their maturation and survival before they can communicate with existing neighboring...
African American women are diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age and have larger tumors and more lymph node involvement than Caucasian women, a Yale School of Medicine researcher reported today.Speaking at the American Society for Therapeutic...
The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) is launching a new Advanced Professional M.P.H. Program, which is designed to accommodate, among others, busy health professionals in the academic world. The Advanced Professional M.P.H. Program will take fewer than...
Yale School of Medicine is hosting a two-day symposium Nov. 1-2 on diseases of the aorta, with a dedication to the late actor John Ritter, who died of an aortic dissection four years ago.The “Summit on Acute Aortic Diseases: Lux et Veritas” will be held...
piRNA partner binds to chromosome A study by researchers at the Yale Stem Cell Center for the first time demonstrates that piRNAs, a recently discovered class of tiny RNAs, play an important role in...
Yale School of Medicine researchers have received $8.4 million to study how cancer cells mend their own chromosomes and DNA after damage caused by radiation and chemotherapy.The study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the next step in...