Alanna Schepartz, the Milton Harris ‘29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry, has been chosen to present the inaugural Chemical Biology Lectureship by the American Chemical Society (ACS).The lectureship, which is jointly sponsored by the ACS Division of...
A team led by Yale University scientists has developed a way to rapidly manipulate and sort different cells in the blood using magnetizable liquids. The findings, which will be published the week of December 7 in the online edition of the Proceedings of...
Researchers from Yale University and Mirna Therapeutics, Inc., reversed the growth of lung tumors in mice using a naturally occurring tumor suppressor microRNA. The study reveals that a tiny bit of RNA may one day play a big role in cancer treatment, and...
Not many Yale seniors get to answer the ubiquitous question “So, what are you doing after graduation?” with “I’m working as an embedded journalist on an icebreaker oceanographic research vessel in the Arctic Ocean.” But that’s exactly what Alex Kain ‘09...
Jack Harris, an associate professor of physics, has received one of this year’s Young Faculty Awards (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He is one of 33 “rising stars” across the country to receive the accolade.DARPA, which...
Nancy A. Moran, the inaugural William H. Fleming, M.D. ’57 Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is an internationally recognized expert on evolution whose research focus is on symbiosis, particularly that between multicellular hosts and microbes...
Yale University researchers have found very large RNA structures within previously unstudied bacteria that appear crucial to basic biological functions such as helping viruses infect cells or allowing genes to “jump” to different parts of the chromosome....
The world’s oceans are absorbing less carbon dioxide (CO2), a Yale geophysicist has found after pooling data taken over the past 50 years. With the oceans currently absorbing over 40 percent of the CO2 emitted by human activity, this could quicken the...
At the center of the sprawling 136-acre West Campus are three buildings that will house scientists who are using three distinct technologies yet who share an underlying mission: transforming the way biological research is conducted at Yale.“New...
November 24 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. The seminal work continues to change how we look at the world, with scientists daily uncovering new examples of how natural selection shapes life. Many...