Yale researchers have found that psychological stress can facilitate sudden death by increasing the chances that arrhythmias – abnormal heart rhythms – are more lethal in susceptible patients. These kinds of deaths, said Rachel Lampert, M.D., the study’...
Students at Hill Regional Career Magnet High School in New Haven are learning science with the only microscope of its kind to be found in a public school in Connecticut. The Zeiss EM109 electron microscope, worth more than some city schools’ annual...
A new light sensitive drug used to treat the most severe form of macular degeneration, which is the leading cause of blindness in people over 50, is being tested at Yale School of Medicine. The drug, verteporfin, is expected to receive approval by the U...
Reversing brain and spinal cord injuries may soon be possible with the discovery of a gene and protein responsible for stopping axon regrowth, Yale researchers say. Brain and spinal cord axons can grow after injury if provided with an adequate...
A Yale researcher has discovered that it is not necessary to have a greasy core in order to fold a protein, which is a whole new way of looking at these critical molecules. Protein folds within each cell are of great interest to researchers,...
After having heart attacks, patients with mental illnesses are significantly less likely to undergo cardiovascular procedures than patients without mental disorders, Yale researchers say. “Having a mental disorder reduces a patient’s chances of...
Painter and printmaker Alex Katz will speak at the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St., on February 9 at 6:30 p.m. Katz will speak on “The Impossibility of Realistic Painting.” Hosted by the Yale School of Art, his talk is free and open to the...
Yale School of Architecture will mark the fiftieth year of its ground-breaking publication, “Perspecta, The Yale Architectural Journal” with a symposium, “Practice and Theory: Perspecta and the Fate of Architectural Discourse,” on February 11 and 12....
A new Web site designed to provide complete, concise information about the past and present health of the greater New Haven area will be launched on Thursday, January 20, at 4:30 p.m., by a group of Yale libraries. The launch, complete with live...
Yale President Levin to Formally Announce $500 Million Plan for Science and Engineering Facilities New Haven, Conn. –Yale University President Richard C. Levin will lead a tour of the University’s science and engineering facilities for federal, state...