Within human cells, tiny membrane-bound compartments called vesicles shepherd biomolecules from place to place. How these vesicles form, move and finally fuse to deliver cargo at a particular destination largely remains a mystery, now being investigated...
Climatology, paleontology, geoarcheology and other careers in the geosciences are the subjects of “GEOWhiz,” a new exhibition on view through Labor Day (Sept. 1) at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.“GEOWhiz” was designed and produced by students...
Joan Feigenbaum, newly appointed as the inaugural Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science, focuses her research on Internet algorithms, computational complexity, security and privacy, and digital copyright.While at Yale, she has been the...
Some bacterial cells can swim, morph into new forms and even become dangerously virulent – all without initial involvement of DNA. Yale University researchers describe Friday in the journal Science how bacteria accomplish this amazing feat – and in doing...
The traces of organic material found in fossil feathers are remnants of pigments that once gave birds their color, according to Yale scientists whose paper in Biology Letters opens up the potential to depict the original coloration of fossilized birds and...
Michael P. Snyder, the Lewis B. Cullman Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry and director of the Yale Center for Genomics and Proteomics was awarded the 2007 Connecticut Medal of...
Yale University announced today the appointment of James E. Rothman, one of the world’s leading cell biologists, as chair of Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Cell Biology. Additionally, Rothman will launch the Center for High-Throughput Cell...
Yale Environment 360, a new online magazine dedicated to covering the global environment, is launching today at http://e360.yale.edu. Edited by Roger Cohn, the former editor of Mother Jones and Audubon magazines, Yale Environment 360 aims to become one of...
Today Pasko Rakic, professor of neurobiology and neurology at Yale University School of Medicine, was named one of the inaugural recipients of the Kavli Prizes, for his key role in changing our understanding of the cerebral cortex, the seat of human...