The Science Saturdays program for April 12 will now feature a lecture and demonstration by chemist Kurt Zilm. It will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Davies Auditorium of the Becton Engineering building at 15 Prospect Street.Zilm’s talk and...
A genetic mutation in a gene that is a marker for asthma severity may also play a role in causing the disease, researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the University of Chicago report today in the New England Journal of Medicine.“We know from a recent...
Airway nerve cells exposed to chlorine. Bright color indicates excitation of some nerve cells. Inhaling chlorine triggers a nerve receptor that protects healthy people by inducing sneezing, coughing, and...
Recent research at Yale provided a glimpse of the ancient mechanism that helped diversify our genomes; it illuminated a relationship between gene processing in humans and the most primitive organisms by creating the first crystal structure of a crucial...
Scott Strobel Yale University’s Scott A. Strobel, professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, has been awarded the prestigious Schering-Plough Research Institute Award.The award is given by the...
A special Yale-CURE BioHaven presentation will give venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and the Yale community a chance to look into the future at the next generation of medical therapeutics.The panel discussion will be held on Wednesday, April 16 in the...
Gunter Wagner (Photo: Marsland/Yale) Higher organisms do not have a “cost of complexity” — or slowdown in the evolution of complex traits — according to a report by researchers at Yale and Washington...
Governors from across the United States will meet at Yale University on April 17 and 18 to review state-level programs to combat global climate change and to develop a strategy for future action. The gathering will also celebrate the centennial of...
Yale University announces the return of Science Saturdays, a special series that brings the excitement of research and the passion of scientists to “kids of all ages” in New Haven. The series begins on April 5 and will continue on Saturdays through April...
A small RNA molecule, known as let-7 microRNA (miRNA), substantially reduced cancer growth in multiple mouse models of lung cancer, according to work by researchers at Yale University and Asuragen, Inc., published in the journal Cell Cycle...