Yale researchers, for the first time, have shown that a particular gene can cause insulin-dependent, or Type I, diabetes. The discovery was made when the researchers induced spontaneous diabetes by injecting an animal model with DQ8, a human gene long...
Yale scientists have successfully used a non-invasive technology called Doppler ultrasound to detect whether or not a fetus is anemic, eliminating the risks accompanying traditional invasive tests for the deficiency. “Invasive procedures place the fetus...
Four distinguished architects will hold visiting endowed professorships at Yale University’s School of Architecture during spring semester, Dean Robert A.M. Stern has announced. Each visiting professor will teach a studio course and present a public...
It’s a small world and getting smaller, thanks, in part, to Kang-i Sun Chang, whose latest book, “Reflections on Yale, Gender, and Culture,” will be published in China next month. Chang is a literature professor at Yale. Her writing in English is...
New Haven, Conn.– If your faith in a continued bull-run on Wall Street hasn’t been shaken yet, you should take a sobering look at “Irrational Exuberance” by Yale Professor Robert J. Shiller. A respected expert on market volatility, Shiller argues in his...
U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala has appointed Yale School of Nursing Associate Dean Margaret Grey, DrPH, PNP, FAAN, to the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research. The council determines how federal dollars for...
A protein that was previously thought to prevent hardening of the arteries has been shown to actually cause the disease, according to a Yale study. Interferon-gamma, a key immune factor protein produced by certain white blood cells, was thought to...
The number of “near-Earth asteroids” that have a chance, though miniscule, of colliding with Earth this century is half what was originally estimated, a Yale researcher says. “They are the kind of asteroids you hear about in movies that are about two-...
A Yale researcher has found up to 100 new and very distant RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way that can give valuable clues about the galaxy’s history and composition. Using a large format camera in a telescope at the Llano del hato Observatory in the...
Paul Sigler, a Yale University scientist and one of the world’s leading structural biologists, died suddenly January 11 while walking to his laboratory. He was 65. Sigler, who was Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale...
