Members of the public will have the opportunity to learn about and view some of the art in the University’s vast museum collections during the Yale Art Museum’s Open House on Thursday, Sept. 2, 5-8 p.m.Both the Yale University Art Gallery (the oldest...
The resurgence of pertussis (whooping cough) among newborns and adults has spurred a study by Yale School of Medicine and Hospital of Saint Raphael that will gauge whether young mothers and other caregivers will accept the pertussis vaccine if it is...
A Yale School of Medicine study reveals that the high prevalence of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) among injection drug users may be partly due to the resilience of the virus in certain types of syringes. The study, which could open new avenues in preventing...
A Yale team led by Professor of Egyptology John Coleman Darnell has unearthed a lost city — the site of a massive bread-making industry — that flourished more than 3,500 years ago in the Western desert of Egypt.
The discovery of the remains of this mud-...
Errors in the copying of genes during cell division can cause numerous diseases, including cancer. Yale School of Medicine scientists, however, have unraveled the secrets of a much more rare phenomenon with potential therapeutic implications – disease-...
West Nile virus tricks mosquitoes into producing a particular protein complex that allows it to survive and be transmitted, Yale researchers report in the Sept. 3 issue of the journal Cell.This molecular survival mechanism helps explain how West Nile...
A team led by Yale University researchers has discovered a previously unknown binding site on a protein found on prostate cancer cells that can enhance their efforts to tag the cells for destruction.The new site improves the ability of synthetic molecules...
Yale College welcomed the 1,344 members of the Class of 2014 to campus on Friday, August 27.The freshman class was selected from an applicant pool of 25,869. Of the new students, 56% came from public high schools, while 44% came from independent,...
Designing a robotic hand that can both pick up and manipulate small objects, like pens or coins, and powerfully grasp larger objects, such as hammers and cups, is no easy task. But that’s exactly what Aaron Dollar, assistant professor of mechanical...
Nenad Sestan, associate professor of neurobiology at Yale, was at the White House on Tuesday, August 24 to call attention to innovative work funded by the $100 billion Recovery Act program to fund innovative and transformative research.Sestan, for...