Douglas L. Rothman Yale will receive a $2 million High-End Instrumentation (HEI) grant from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) to fund the purchase of a 7-Tesla human magnetic resonance (MR) system that will facilitate...
Leading scientists, including several from Yale School of Medicine, will gather in Washington, D.C., September 10-12 to identify new approaches for the treatment of Tourette Syndrome (TS), a familial neurological disorder that begins in childhood and is...
One of the country’s leading stem cell biologists, Haifan Lin, has been appointed director of the Yale Stem Cell Program effective September 1, Yale School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern announced this week.Lin, currently a cell biology professor and co-...
Pasko Rakic, M.D. New Haven, Conn.—The prolonged and frequent use of ultrasound on pregnant mice causes brain abnormalities in the developing mouse fetus, Yale School of Medicine researchers report August 7 in the Proceedings of the...
Farnoosh Hashemian (right) and Farahnaz Falahati (left) with Iranian children Iranian civilians exposed to high-intensity warfare and chemical weapons are experiencing significantly higher levels of psychological distress compared to...
Genetics may be a risk factor in premature infants who develop problems in their lungs as a result of not reaching normal gestational age, according to a study at Yale School of Medicine.The three most common medical problems, and which also are...
Increased counseling and more frequent dispensing of medication does not improve abstinence in drug abuse treatment, according to a Yale School of Medicine study published July 27 in the New England Journal of Medicine.“Patients who took their medication...
Judy Collins Songwriter and performer Judy Collins will perform at Yale University September 20, 2006, at 7 p.m. in a benefit concert—“An Evening with Judy Collins”—to support Women’s Health Research at Yale.“Judy Collins is such a great...
Anton Bennett Mice bred without the enzyme MKP-1 are resistant to weight gain despite consuming high fat foods and eating more than control mice, according to a research study published online in Cell Metabolism.“The results from this...
Pasko Rakic Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the University of Oxford have identified the very first neurons in what develops into the cerebral cortex, the part of the brain that makes humans human.The findings published in...