Yale researchers have discovered how a novel anti-depressant can take effect in hours, rather than the weeks or months usually required for most drugs currently on the market. The findings, described in the August 20 issue of the journal Science, should...
A team of astronomers has used a massive galaxy cluster as a cosmic magnifying lens to study the nature of dark energy for the first time. When combined with existing techniques, their results significantly improve current measurements of the mass and...
Yale School of Medicine today announced that it has begun notifying approximately 1,000 individuals whose clinical health information was contained on a laptop computer that was recently stolen. There is no indication that any individual information on...
A combination of Chinese herbs in use for more than 1,800 years reduced the gastrointestinal side effects of chemotherapy in mice, while actually enhancing the effects of the cancer treatment, Yale University researchers report.The formula used in the...
Retired United States Army General Stanley McChrystal has been appointed a Senior Fellow with the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University for the fall 2010 semester.General McChrystal, former Commander of the International Security...
The stem cell transplant that Mandi Schwartz needs to help her win her battle with cancer will include a breakthrough procedure pioneered by one of her doctors, but first Mandi must undergo more chemotherapy.The stem cell transplant that Mandi Schwartz...
The performance at Sprague Hall, 470 College Street, by New Haven public school students enrolled in the Morse Summer Music Academy has been rescheduled for Tuesday, August 17, 3:30–4:30 pm. Students in a Masterclass with Yale School of Music professor of...
Yale University has been designated as one of six national centers that will lead a five-year, $100 million campaign to investigate how the human immune system responds to vaccines and infections.Using a $16.7 million grant from the National Institute of...
Within a dangerous stomach bacterium, Yale University researchers have discovered an ancient but functioning genetic remnant from a time before DNA existed, they report in the August 13 issue of the journal Science.To the surprise of researchers, this RNA...
The Gondwana supercontinent underwent a 60-degree rotation across Earth’s surface during the Early Cambrian period, according to new evidence uncovered by a team of Yale University geologists. Gondwana made up the southern half of Pangaea, the giant...