Researchers at Yale University have developed synthetic molecules capable of enhancing the body’s immune response to HIV and HIV-infected cells, as well as to prostate cancer cells. Their findings, published online in the Journal of the American Chemical...
A gene variant makes people who experienced trauma as children or adults more susceptible to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Yale researchers have found.The study, published in the November edition of the Archives of General Psychiatry, sheds light...
Learning to talk also changes the way speech sounds are heard, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated research laboratory. The findings could have a...
Low levels of testosterone, the major male hormone, may contribute to a number of problems in older men, such as decreased physical and sexual function, impaired cognition, low vitality, cardiovascular disease and anemia. Researchers at Yale School of...
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute for Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences held its inaugural symposium on Oct. 16 at West Campus.The day-long event was a dual-pronged celebration: first, honoring the gift by the Sacklers that helped...
More than 200 people attended the Yale Stem Cell Center’s second annual Stem Cell Retreat held Oct. 23 at the Omni Hotel in New Haven.The retreat, which features reports on stem cell research from 49 Yale labs, has become so popular that registration had...
Yale internist Dr. Lisa Sanders makes no apologies for being a big fan of one not-always-realistic medical drama.She regularly tunes in to the award-winning FOX television series “House, M.D.,” which features Hugh Laurie as its title character, Dr....
Infants born to women who received influenza vaccine during pregnancy were hospitalized at a lower rate than infants born to unvaccinated mothers, according to preliminary results of an ongoing study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine. The team...
Two Yale School of Medicine physicians have been awarded a $4.1 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study a new pharmacological treatment for newly released HIV-positive inmates with alcohol dependence who are...
Yale researchers have been awarded a $320,000 grant from The Kiev Foundation to study new ways to treat Williams Syndrome, a rare, thus far incurable chromosomal disorder that causes cardiovascular and connective tissue problems.Williams Syndrome (WS)...