Our energy-hungry brains operate reliably and efficiently while processing a flood of sensory information, thanks to a sort of neuronal thermostat that regulates activity in the visual cortex, Yale researchers have found.The actions of inhibitory neurons...
Stress induces signals that cause cells to develop into tumors, Yale researchers have discovered. The research, published online Jan. 13 in the journal Nature, describes a novel way cancer takes hold in the body and suggests new ways to attack the deadly...
New research conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School concludes that people’s cultural values influence how risky they perceive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to be and thus, their views on whether or not the vaccine should...
Carnegie Professor Emeritus of the History of Art Walter Cahn will deliver the first spring-term Franke lecture at the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) at Yale in this semester’s series, “The Age of Cathedrals.”His talk, titled “Romanesque and Gothic as...
Yale student musicians, including the incomparable Whiffenpoofs and Yale Gospel Choir, will put on a concert, “Help Can’t Wait Haiti,” to raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake on Monday evening, Martin Luther King Day.The benefit concert will...
Sons of adolescent fathers are nearly twice as likely to perpetuate the cycle of young parenthood and become teenage dads themselves, a new study by the Yale School of Public Health has found.Previous studies have documented the intergenerational cycle of...
Yale President Richard C. Levin presented a $5,000 contribution for Haitian relief efforts today to Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the opening ceremony of the Global Colloquium of University Presidents.“As a caring, global...
For the complete stories on this research, click on the title of each summary.Scientists use nanosensors for first time to measure cancer biomarkers in bloodYale engineers Mark Reed and Tarek Fahmy have used nanosensors to measure cancer biomarkers in...
Four Yale professors have been elected by their peers in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as fellows in honor of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.They are: Mark...
Not many parents can say they have never given their kids an antibiotic or a pharmaceutical pain-relief medication for an ear infection or sore throat, but first-year medical resident Dr. Aviva Romm can.In fact, when her son, a second-year medical student...