Thanks to surgery, about 90 percent of infants born with congenital heart disease (CHD) survive to adulthood, but many face a lifetime of related health problems such as neurodevelopmental abnormalities, respiratory problems, and heart arrhythmias.
“We...
More than 20 years after scientists revealed that mutations in the BRCA1 gene predispose women to breast cancer, Yale scientists have pinpointed the molecular mechanism that allows those mutations to wreak their havoc.
The findings, reported Oct. 4 in the...
When disease-bearing mosquitoes expand into new habitats, public health officials should test the ability of new arrivals to transmit viruses at a variety of temperatures, a new Yale-led study suggests.
Scientists have known that temperature plays a key...
Children and teens with severe anxiety need both behavioral therapy and medication for the best chance of improvement, a new Yale-led analysis has found.
A prior landmark study of 488 youths between the ages of 7 and 17 had shown that cognitive behavioral...
Yale psychologist Paul Bloom is the recipient of the $1 million 2017 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize for his investigations into how children develop a sense of morality.
The Jacobs Foundation annually honors scientific achievements that are of exceptional...
About 20 veterans commit suicide every day. The primary enemy most veterans face after service is not war-related trauma but loneliness, according to a new study by researchers at Yale and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for...
A colony of monkeys off the coast of Puerto Rico mostly survived a direct hit by Hurricane Maria but an international team of researchers who have studied the 1,000 free-ranging Rhesus monkeys are scrambling to assist survivors and the staff who serve...
For ducks, size matters — but not in the way you might expect.
Penises of some species of ducks grow extremely long in spring, only to shrink to 10% of their maximum size in the fall and winter, Yale researchers report Sept. 20 in the journal Auk. And it...
Joann Sweasy treats the future of her postdocs with the same demanding attention and rigor she applies to experiments in her lab. For her strong advocacy for those working in her lab, Sweasy, the Ensign Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and professor of...
Moral outrage historically has helped identify and punish some of the worst malefactors among us; however that original purpose could be perverted in the Internet age, argues Yale psychologist Molly Crockett in the Sept. 18 issue of the journal Nature...