It has been 60 years since scientists discovered that sodium channels create the electrical impulses crucial to the function of nerve, brain, and heart cells — all of which are termed “excitable.” Now researchers at Yale and elsewhere are discovering that...
Rana Dajani, assistant professor in molecular biology in the faculty of science at the Hashemite University in Jordan, came to Yale last year as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Genetics and a Fulbright Scholar. Dajani, who worked in...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Yale chemist Jason Crawford a five-year, $2.5 million grant that will support his study of gut-dwelling bacteria that play a role in the development of colorectal cancer.Jason CrawfordCrawford, who...
When genes that normally suppress tumor growth are themselves suppressed, cancer cells can grow and proliferate uncontrollably. A new study led by a researcher at Yale University has uncovered the pathway through which some of these tumor suppressor genes...