In 2013, Yale immunologist Akiko Iwasaki invited Anna Marie Pyle, a biochemist and structural biologist working on Science Hill, to speak at a seminar she was hosting at the medical school. During the event, Pyle discussed her work on a molecule called...
Physician turnover is disruptive to patients and costly to health care facilities and physicians alike. In a new study, Yale researchers used machine learning to reveal the factors — including the length of a physician’s tenure, their age, and the...
For the past few years, Elias Jaffa worked at a community hospital in rural South Carolina. The job, he says, expanded his perspective on medicine.
Jaffa, an expert in point-of-care ultrasound who recently joined Yale’s Department of Emergency Medicine,...
On a very untypical August day in 2020, Marcella Nunez-Smith sat down in her office and prepared to join an important video call. A day earlier, a representative for Joe Biden, then the Democratic nominee for president, had asked if she could speak with...
When cells in the human body sense a change in the environment, molecules known as kinases can help them respond: these specialized enzymes activate proteins, propagating signals within a cell that ultimately alter its function. Yet if scientists want to...
Early diagnosis of uterine cancer is known to improve a patient’s chances for survival, but previous research has found that Black patients are less likely to receive early diagnoses than people of other racial and ethnic groups. A new analysis by Yale...
Yale scientists have for the first time identified a volatile pheromone emitted by the tsetse fly, a blood-sucking insect that spreads diseases in both humans and animals across much of sub-Saharan Africa. The discovery offers new insights into how the...
As many U.S. states adopt policies that legalize the commercialization of cannabis, Yale School of Medicine recently announced the creation of the new Yale Center for the Science of Cannabis and Cannabinoids, which will investigate the acute and chronic...
After completing a medical residency at Yale, Dennis Shung stuck around for a fellowship. Then he stayed to earn a master’s degree, and then a Ph.D. Last summer he became an assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine.
Shung says it’s the quality of...
A growing number of researchers have more than two grants simultaneously from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), but women and Black researchers are less likely than white men to be among them, a new Yale study finds. This disparity, the researchers...