Yale University researchers have found very large RNA structures within previously unstudied bacteria that appear crucial to basic biological functions such as helping viruses infect cells or allowing genes to “jump” to different parts of the chromosome....
Not many Yale seniors get to answer the ubiquitous question “So, what are you doing after graduation?” with “I’m working as an embedded journalist on an icebreaker oceanographic research vessel in the Arctic Ocean.” But that’s exactly what Alex Kain ‘09...
Jack Harris, an associate professor of physics, has received one of this year’s Young Faculty Awards (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He is one of 33 “rising stars” across the country to receive the accolade.DARPA, which...
Nancy A. Moran, the inaugural William H. Fleming, M.D. ’57 Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is an internationally recognized expert on evolution whose research focus is on symbiosis, particularly that between multicellular hosts and microbes...
Researchers from Yale University and Mirna Therapeutics, Inc., reversed the growth of lung tumors in mice using a naturally occurring tumor suppressor microRNA. The study reveals that a tiny bit of RNA may one day play a big role in cancer treatment, and...
A team led by Yale University scientists has developed a way to rapidly manipulate and sort different cells in the blood using magnetizable liquids. The findings, which will be published the week of December 7 in the online edition of the Proceedings of...
If you’ve ever been to Hawaii, you probably spent your time enjoying the scenery of the beautiful islands, rather than wondering how they got to be there in the first place. But that’s just what scientists have been trying to figure out for nearly 40...
Lisa D. Pfefferle, newly named as the C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor of Engineering, is an expert in the areas of combustion kinetics and chemical reaction engineering.Pfefferle’s concentration is in catalytically stabilized hydrocarbon fuels and analyzing...
Alanna Schepartz, the Milton Harris ‘29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry, has been chosen to present the inaugural Chemical Biology Lectureship by the American Chemical Society (ACS).The lectureship, which is jointly sponsored by the ACS Division of...
In the wake of the University of East Anglia email controversy and the start of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, there has been even more focus on climate change—and a need to clarify the science behind it—than ever. To help...