Age-related macular degeneration is one of the leading causes of blindness in the elderly, affecting more than 2 million people in the United States and leading to progressive loss of central vision. Genome wide studies have identified almost three dozen...
Scientists have looked for immune system factors that might help mosquitoes ward off pathogens such as malarial parasites and indirectly protect humans from infection. Yale researchers found one by editing a single gene, which turns out to be crucial for...
A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet like the Keto regimen has its fans, but influenza apparently isn’t one of them.
Mice fed a ketogenic diet were better able to combat the flu virus than mice fed food high in carbohydrates, according to a new Yale...
Using sophisticated screening across animal species, researchers at Yale have created a cellular blueprint of the human lung that will make it easier to understand the design principles behind lung function and disease — and to bioengineer new lungs.
The...
Putting together a list of top Yale stories for any year can be a daunting task — especially when you have more than 1,600 to choose from (that’s how many we published on YaleNews in 2019) and when each documents something about Yale that makes us proud....
The peaceful and delicate co-existence of friendly gut bacteria and the immune system relies on highly coordinated information exchange between immune system cells and certain cells lining the intestine. Until now, scientists generally believed these two...
Fat cells are filled with droplets coated by molecules that act like hotel doormen: These “doormen” control cellular access for nutrients as well as for the exit of energy-supplying molecules called lipids. In healthy individuals, outgoing and incoming...
Yale doctors have developed a way to create vascular grafts from stem cells that are as strong as the original blood vessels they would replace.
The advance, demonstrated in an animal model, may lead to bioengineered grafts suitable for transplant into...