The answer to how RNA polymerase stays still and moves at the same time while beginning its job of copying DNA into RNA is, according to a Yale scientist: “scrunching.” Using x-ray crystallography, Professor Thomas Steitz, the Eugene Higgins Professor...
The Yale University School of Nursing (YSN) will host a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Master Class on minority health on January 17, 2000, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the school’s 100 Church Street South campus. The class will be open to undergraduates...
Karina Danvers, a Yale School of Nursing (YSN) community outreach worker who has AIDS, recently received a Commissioner’s AIDS Leadership Award from the Connecticut Department of Public Health. Danvers was cited for her volunteer work on a project to...
Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) will convene a Senate hearing at Fairfield University to address the public health threat posed by the West Nile virus and other mosquito-borne illnesses. Durland Fish, a Yale expert on insect-borne diseases, will be a...
A treatment for autistic children that was touted by the media and anxious parents as a wonder drug has been shown to have no effect, highlighting the need for controlled studies, according to a Yale psychiatrist. The drug secretin did no better at...
Yale researchers have received a $1.5 million grant to develop a computer system that will analyze cancer cells and compare them against thousands of other specimens. The grant awarded to the Center for Medical Informatics will be used to analyze two...
A new screening test that could significantly improve the detection of fetal Down syndrome will be tested in a national clinical trial by Yale researchers beginning in January. The modified urine pregnancy test, hyperglycosylated hCG (HhCG), was...
A Yale study reveals that B cells play a leading role in promoting the development of unique cells that serve as gatekeepers for disease in the gastrointestinal area. B cells once were thought to function mainly as sources of serum antibody and as...