Yale’s Joan Steitz has been awarded two major prizes recognizing the outstanding achievements of women scientists.Joan SteitzSteitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, was...
The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project is the effort of hundreds of scientists to describe the workings of the human genome. Their research, outlined in 30 papers published in multiple journals Sept. 5, has confirmed our genome is far more...
The most common lineages of fish found today in oceans, lakes, and rivers evolved about the same time as mammals and birds, a new Yale University-led study shows.A genetic analysis by Yale researchers show that the earliest ray-finned fishes called...