A research team at Yale has found that blocking a kind of cell death called apoptosis in fibrotic diseases of the lung, also blocks the fibrosis, opening new ways of looking at treatment for lung diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis. Published in the...
A genetic mutation related to a more aggressive form of breast cancer occurs four times more often in African American patients than their white counterparts, Yale researchers report in the August 9, 2004 online edition of the journal Cancer. In the...
Yale University will host a conference to mark the 800th anniversary of the death of the renowned medieval Jewish philosopher, legal scholar and community leader Moses ben Maimon (1138-1204), also known as Maimonides and the Rambam, on September 12....
In a paper published this month in Molecular Cell, Yale researchers have, for the first time, described the atomic structure of a protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease. “Alzheimer’s disease is a major health problem because of the aging of the...
Yale College news reporters will hold a week-long Summer Journalism Program for 30 local high school students who want to experience the life of a journalist and hone their news skills, August 22-28. The program aims to teach “the tricks of the trade”...
Marathon runners 50 and older, and female athletes in particular, are showing greater improvement in running times than younger runners, according to a study by a Yale professor. Peter Jokl, M.D., professor of orthopedics, and his co-authors, Paul Sethi...
Yale mathematician Shizuo Kakutani, who invented a tool known as the Kakutani skyscraper that was used to organize random processes such as coin flipping, died this week in New Haven. He was 92. Kakutani, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at...
Yale University is a key member of a nationwide group of medical centers awarded a $17 million grant from the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke, a division of the National Institutes of Health, for a study of childhood absence (petit...
The 1,312 members of the Yale College Class of 2008 will arrive on campus August 28 for orientation activities. This year’s class was chosen from the largest number of applicants Yale has ever had: 19,682 in all. That number represents an increase of...
On October 6, the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., with the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, will host the first of a series of four lectures on 100 years of psychoanalysis by renowned author Elisabeth Young-Bruehl....