Yale University researchers have visualized in atomic detail how two important female sex hormones, progesterone and estrogen, bind to their receptors – an accomplishment that could help scientists design better medications to treat breast cancer, ease...
Linda A. Mason, president and co-founder of Bright Horizons Children’s Centers Inc., the nation’s largest provider of corporate-sponsored early childhood education, has been chosen in a nationwide balloting of her fellow Yale graduates to serve as an...
Many menopausal women fear the ill effects of prescription estrogen. Physicians routinely prescribe the hormone for their patients, but fewer than half fill the prescriptions, says Yale researcher Susan Cohen. Within a year, only 20 percent of the...
1. Powerful Microlasers Demonstrated by Yale, Bell Labs Scientists 2. Biochemical “Jurassic Park” Inhabited by Probable Early Life Forms 3. Studies of Two Female Hormone Receptors Could Aid Drug Design 4. Better Telescopes, Microscopes with World’...
Using chaos theory, a team of scientists from Yale University, Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs, and the Max Planck Institute of Physics in Germany have demonstrated novel semiconductor microlasers with more than 1,000 times the power of conventional,...
Kate Stith, a member of the Yale Law School faculty since 1985, has been appointed the Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law by vote of the Yale Corporation. The Foster chair was established in 1903 by a bequest of Lafayette Sabine Foster, who was a...
A grant of $220,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow Yale to expand its Librarian-in-Residence program, which brings talented minority librarians to New Haven for a two-year term. Thanks to the new funding just announced by the Mellon...