Near Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., a population of mosquitoes capable of transmitting tropical diseases is hunkering down for a sixth straight winter. A new study of this group of Aedes aegypti shows they originated in Florida and, unlike their...
Yale geneticists have expanded the potential uses of a groundbreaking gene-editing technology by modifying a single variable — temperature.
The CRISPR-Cpf1 gene-editing technology has proved to be highly efficient in mice but not in other model organisms...
Right after conception, hundreds of tiny mutations begin to accumulate in cells of a developing fetus, a process that continues, but at a much slower rate, well into adulthood, a new study by researchers at Yale and the Mayo Clinic shows. The...
Steak or ice cream? To make the choice, the brain assigns a value to each option. For example, at dinnertime, steak may be ranked more valuable because the body needs protein, so the brain’s valuation system will respond more strongly to steak than to ice...
Yale researchers have discovered novel chemical compounds that extend the lifespan of a species of yeast by using a new technology that could also hunt for tools to combat aging in other species as well, they report Nov. 28 in the journal Cell Reports.
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The most dramatic divergence between humans and other primates can be found in the brain, the primary organ that gives our species its identity.
However, all regions of the human brain have molecular signatures very similar to those of our primate...
Yale researchers report they have created a more precise and efficient technology to edit the genomes of living organisms, an ability that is transforming medicine and biotechnology. The new method, described Nov. 16 in the journal Cell, eliminates some...
Two new research papers reinforce the benefits of a novel therapy that hijacks the cell’s own protein degradation machinery to destroy cancer cells, Yale researchers report Nov. 9 in the journal Cell Chemical Biology.
The new approach to drug discovery,...
When it comes to raising teenagers, parents have an ally — laminin alpha 5, a molecule crucial to the maturing of the adolescent brain — a Yale-led study published Oct. 31 in the journal Cell Reports suggests.
For a decade, the Yale team had sought...