Charles H. Ahn and Craig M. Crews were appointed to John C. Malone professorships.
Ahn, named as the John C. Malone Professor of Applied Physics, focuses his research on the fabrication and characterization of the physical properties of materials using...
Within hours after fertilization, a unique genome forms from chromosomes contributed by the egg and sperm. However, this new genome is initially inactive and must be “awakened” to begin the transcription of its DNA and start embryonic development. How...
“When Whales Walked,” a new TV documentary on the evolutionary origins of some of nature’s most spectacular animals, will feature research and commentary from a pair of Yale paleontologists.
The documentary, created in a first-ever partnership between PBS...
Even if you’re not a physicist, phases of matter … really matter. They’re the distinct physical forms taken on by all the “stuff” in the universe, from icebergs to ozone, and now Yale scientists have developed a more accurate way to help classify some of...
After garnering worldwide attention last year for her research on the origins of egg color in birds, Yale paleontologist Jasmina Wiemann has taken a second look at her eggshells.
Wiemann had found that all colors and spots on modern birds’ eggs derived...
Even after antibiotic treatment, some Lyme disease patients continue to suffer from debilitating arthritis. A new Yale study may explain why.
The tick-borne bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi leaves behind parts of its cell wall in patients’ joints, which...
What makes healthy cells change and become dysfunctional to the point of causing disease? In addition to a disruption in genes that regulate cells, there is another factor in cell misbehavior that involves metabolism, say Yale researchers.
The research...
Of all forms of memory, episodic memory is the most intimate. We recall the sequences of events that happen to us — a marriage, a visit to a foreign country, a personal achievement — in great autobiographical detail. But scientists have disagreed about...
A prevailing theory in neuroscience holds that people make decisions based on integrated global calculations that occur within the frontal cortex of the brain.
However, Yale researchers have found that three distinct circuits connecting to different...
Yale researchers have discovered how metastasis, the spread of cancer cells throughout the body, is triggered on the molecular level, and have developed a tool with the potential to detect those triggers in patients with certain cancers. The discovery...