Yale Cancer Center Director, Richard L. Edelson, M.D., is pleased to announce a partnership with Bike Across America for the “Connecticut Challenge,” a non–competitive bike ride to raise money to support cancer survivorship initiatives at Yale. Taking...
Researchers at Yale have identified a gene that regulates the major immune response in plants, programmed cell death (PCD), according to a recent report in the journal Cell. A protective zone of dead cells (brown) around a virus invasion (purple)...
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D–CT) is scheduled to be a featured speaker at the second Yale Discovery to Cure Gala Benefit to raise support for and awareness of reproductive cancers in women, Saturday June 11 at 6 p.m. at Branford College, 74 High St. “...
A report by Yale scientists in the journal Cell sheds new light on how the protein Ro, a major autoantigen in patients with autoimmune disease, recognizes misfolded RNAs, creating a RNA quality control system for cells. Yale Scientists Identify...
The 2005 Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize for outstanding achievement in water science and technology will be presented to Professor Menachem Elimelech of Yale University on July 7 in a ceremony in Dana Point, Calif. by the National Water Research...
Yale biologists have managed to extract and analyze DNA from giant, extinct lemurs, according to a Yale study published in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Radiocarbon dating of the bones and teeth from which the DNA...
The first annual Abraham Pais Award for the History of Physics was presented to Martin J. Klein, Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Physics and the History of Science at Yale University, in recognition of his outstanding scholarly achievements in the...
Patients listening to their favorite music required much less sedation during surgery than did patients who listened to white noise or operating room noise, according to a Yale School of Medicine study published in May. The senior author, Zeev Kain, M.D...
By the time children are in second grade, they know to take what people say with a grain of salt, particularly when the statement supports the speaker’s self–interest, according to a published study by Yale researchers that was highlighted as an Editor’s...
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) today announced that of the six talented graduate students who will receive the Gilliam Graduate Fellowships for studies in the life sciences, two will attend Yale. The late James H. Gilliam Jr., a charter...