The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Yale chemist Jason Crawford a five-year, $2.5 million grant that will support his study of gut-dwelling bacteria that play a role in the development of colorectal cancer.Jason CrawfordCrawford, who...
Rana Dajani, assistant professor in molecular biology in the faculty of science at the Hashemite University in Jordan, came to Yale last year as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Genetics and a Fulbright Scholar. Dajani, who worked in...
It has been 60 years since scientists discovered that sodium channels create the electrical impulses crucial to the function of nerve, brain, and heart cells — all of which are termed “excitable.” Now researchers at Yale and elsewhere are discovering that...
Inflammation is the common denominator of many chronic age-related diseases such as arthritis, gout, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes. But according to a Yale School of Medicine study, even in the absence of a disease, inflammation can lead to serious loss of...