An alignment between the C. elegans and human genes; the C. elegans lin-4 gene is found in humans, conserved as human mir-125. Genes that control the timing of organ formation during development also control timing of aging and death,...
Two grants totaling $500,000 will support Yale University participation in an international consortium to make prestigious scientific journals in the environment sciences available online to the developing world at little or no cost. Paul...
Philip Johnson three-day symposium An American cultural icon and one of the 20th Century’s most celebrated architects, Philip Johnson (1906–2005), will be honored in a three-day symposium, February 16–18, hosted by the Museum of Modern Art in...
“Iraq Beyond the Headlines,” an illustrated 275-page book. In this illustrated 275-page book, titled “Iraq Beyond the Headlines,” Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster of Yale University and Patty Gerstenblith of DePaul University...
Yale University will honor the memory of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. from January 12 to 16.All events are open to the public and free, unless otherwise noted. The commemoration will begin with a reception hosted by the Yale School of Public...
David L. Rimm, M.D., Ph.D Researchers in the Department of Pathology at Yale University School of Medicine report that when using current pathology methods of biomarker detection, the concentration of antibodies used dramatically alters the...
Early studies to understand the malnutrition disease, beri beri, led to the identification of vitamin B1 (thiamine, inset, top), a nutrient found in brown rice but not polished white rice. The thiamine analog pyrithiamine (inset, bottom) has toxic...
Serap Aksoy By sequencing the genome of the symbiotic bacterium Sodalis, which lives off the major disease-transmitting insect, the tsetse fly, researchers at Yale School of Medicine have come a step closer to understanding how microbial...
The langerhans cells are marked in red and another cell type are in green. Wild-type mice are on the bottom and have both the red and green cells. Then transgenic mice are on the top and still have the green cells but the red cells are...
With generous new gifts, three new university partners and the addition of an environmental studies focus, the Fox International Fellowship is well positioned to advance Yale President Richard C. Levin’s global vision for the University.Joseph C. Fox, a...