Low doses of the environmental contaminant bisphenol–A (BPA), widely used to make many plastics found in food storage containers, including feeding bottles for infants, can impair brain function, leading to learning disabilities and age–related...
“Funding Opportunities for Bioscience Technologies,” a workshop sponsored by the Connecticut Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Office will be held at Yale from 8:30 a.m. – 12 noon on April 12 in the Anlyan...
An area of the brain that activates when looking at faces does not respond the same way when perceiving other very familiar objects, according to a study by Yale researchers in the journal Neuropsychologia. “We humans are all face experts,” said Yaoda...
Robert D. Grober, Yale professor of Applied Physics and Physics, has combined his passion for golf and his professional expertise to produce a unique and effective real–time audio biofeedback device for teaching and training golf. Grober “hears”...
A Yale book that explores the ability of the marketplace to reverse global forest destruction has won the 2005 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for the best book of the year on environmental policy and politics. “Governing Through Markets: Forest...
Recurrent miscarriage, stillbirth, preeclampsia, poor fetal growth, preterm delivery and bleeding in pregnancy are influenced by low levels of the anti–clotting proteins Z and S, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the March issue of Journal of...
The Yale (Bush) Center in Child Development and Social Policy, one of the nation’s oldest centers for child and family policy research, has been renamed the Edward Zigler Center for Child Development and Social Policy. The new name honors its founder,...
Hal Blumenfeld, M.D., an assistant professor of neurology, neurobiology and neurosurgery at Yale School of Medicine, has received the Dreifuss-Penry Epilepsy Award for his research on epilepsy and impaired consciousness. The award is made by the American...
Research in the laboratory of Assistant Professor Frank J. Slack at Yale University has identified a new way that a familiar gene is regulated in lung cancer, presenting new possibilities for diagnosis and treatment. The work is reported in March issues...
Calls to regionalize the care of patients with heart attacks are premature, and do not account for potential unintended consequences, according to a commentary by Yale researchers published in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). “...