Red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the human body, an essential function for survival. Anemia results when someone has fewer red blood cells than normal. The world’s most common blood disorder, anemia comes in many different varieties — mild to...
Yale faculty members Mary-Louise Timmermans, Elena Gracheva, Fengnian Xia, and Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio have been named recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by...
Why does coffee smell like coffee, whether on a San Diego beach or in the middle of Manhattan? Olfactory systems can distinguish incoming odors from backgrounds, even though different odors activate many of the same olfactory receptors.
A new theoretical...
By 2034, when the Dragonfly drone mission makes landfall on the surface of Titan, Yale’s Juan Lora will have spent nearly half his life studying the climatic tendencies of Saturn’s icy moon.
That’s when the real work will begin, he says.
Finally, after...
Even in patients who receive long-term anti-retroviral treatment, cells containing HIV remain in the cerebrospinal fluid of half of those treated for the disease, and those individuals are more likely to experience cognitive deficits than those without...
Rohini Pande and Ramamurti Shankar were appointed to endowed professorships.
Pande, named as the Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics, is an economist whose research examines the economic costs and benefits of informal and formal institutions in the...
Treatments for Parkinson’s disease have most recently focused on increasing dopamine, a chemical messenger in the brain that affects reward-based behaviors and motivation, as well as movement. A new study by Yale researchers challenges long-held...