Yale University and Innovir Laboratories Inc. of New York City recently announced they have been granted additional broad patent rights for a promising technology for treating and preventing a number of diseases, including hepatitis. The technology,...
Yale University’s Peabody Museum of Natural History has received a $350,000 grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute – HHMI – to fund a four-year comprehensive scientific educational program for New Haven teachers, schoolchildren and their families...
A news conference will be held Thursday, July 17, to announce that the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History will work with the New Haven Public Schools, L.E.A.P. – Leadership, Education, and Athletics in Partnership, and the Eli Whitney Museum on a...
Yale University biologists for the first time have succeeded in preventing the expression of genes that make bacteria resistant to two widely used antibiotics – chloramphenicol and ampicillin – thus restoring the bacteria’s sensitivity to the antibiotics...
Longtime Yale University faculty member Donald M. Crothers of Northford has been named Sterling Professor of Chemistry by vote of the Yale Corporation. In his research, Professor Crothers studies the three-dimensional structure and dynamics of DNA and...
Donald M. Engelman of Guilford has been named Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry by vote of the Yale Corporation. In his laboratory, Professor Engelman is working with cell membranes to understand how the one-dimensional...
A robot inspired by the ability of bats and dolphins to use echoes for locating prey is causing robotics experts to reevaluate the relative merits of sound waves versus camera vision for exploring new environments. The sonar device, which was designed...
A recent press release announcing this year’s Yale Divinity School Coffin-Forsberg Fellows misstated the professional title of one of the award recipients. Thomas Ficklin is CEO and editor-in-chief of “Inner City,” a weekly newspaper focusing on the...
Several of Connecticut’s elected representatives will be on hand Monday to participate in an announcement about a major federal grant received by Yale University to create and support a Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS. The mission of the...
CIRA Will Involve Six of Yale’s Professional Schools With Initial Focus on Connecticut Teens, Women, Drug Users New Haven, CT – Yale University has received a $10.8-million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National...
