Yale School of Medicine researchers reported today that the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA), a building block for polycarbonate plastics found in common household items, causes the loss of connections between brain cells. This synaptic loss may cause memory/...
Yale molecular and evolutionary biologists in collaboration with Department of Energy scientists produced the full genome sequence of Trichoplax, one of nature’s most primitive multicellular organisms, providing a new insight into the evolution of all...
Robert A.M. Stern Architects has been selected to design the two new residential colleges of Yale College, President Richard C. Levin has announced. The new colleges will expand the average undergraduate population of 5,250 by 15 percent, to approximately...
Out of the 3 billion genetic letters that spell out the human genome, Yale scientists have found a handful that may have contributed to the evolutionary changes in human limbs that enabled us to manipulate tools and walk upright. Results from a...
Yale researchers have identified an unusual molecular process in normal tissues that causes RNA molecules produced from separate genes to be clipped and stitched together. The discovery that these rearranged products exist in normal as well as cancerous...
There appears to be an upper limit to how big the universe’s most massive black holes can get, according to new research led by a Yale University astrophysicist. Once considered rare and exotic objects, black holes are now known to exist throughout the...
If the current real estate crisis is to be resolved and a recurrence prevented, there need to be major changes both in the marketplace and in the behavior of individual investors, explains Yale economist Robert J. Shiller in his new book, The Subprime...
Yale University scientists have found tiny snippets of RNA are crucial to the formation of blood vessels – a process called angiogenesis that is crucial to everything from early development to heart disease and the spread of cancer. The findings, which...
Yale University’s Pasko Rakic, one of the world’s top neurobiologists, received the inaugural Kavli Foundation Prize for Neuroscience during a ceremony on Sept. 9 in Norway.The Yale University School of Medicine neurobiologist shares a $1 million prize...
Yale scientists involved with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be available to speak with the media about the start-up of the LHC, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, before it begins operations on Sept. 10. Keith Baker and...