Mice engineered without the Nogo-66 Receptor (NgR) grew new nerve fibers after spinal cord injury, pointing to this receptor as a target for development of a drug to promote fiber recovery, according to a Yale study published today in Neuron. The...
Yale will present the C-E.A. Winslow Medal to William H. Foege, M.D., Emeritus Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health at the Emory School of Public Health, on October 28 at 4 p.m. in Harkness Auditorium, 333 Cedar St. Foege will...
Yale University is transferring 5,000 doses of flu vaccine to the City of New Haven to help it care for residents who are most in need of vaccination this flu season. “The current shortage of vaccine prompted Yale to reach out to its neighbors to help...
Four students from the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies will receive grants to study pressing environmental challenges as Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research. “Only 16 such awards were given this year, so this is quite an...
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) has received a $100,000 two-year grant from the GE Foundation to offer full financial support for up to five students from historically underrepresented U.S. communities. This is the...
Scientists in the department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University have devised a method to precisely date the timing and temperature of a meteorite impact on Mars that led to ejection of a piece of the planet into space and its eventual impact on...
The Yale Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC) has a new award of about $9.5 million to continue its studies through September 2009. The Yale Tobacco Center is one of seven research centers funded over the next five years by the National...
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Halberstam will speak at Yale University on November 10 at 4:30 p.m. in Room 127 of Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, as the next Chubb Fellow. The lecture, “Iraq and the Shadow of Vietnam,” is free and open to the...
Estrogen treatment had less beneficial effect on memory in female mice that raced on running wheels and played with other toys than in mice raised in non-stimulating environments, according to a Yale study published this month. “We saw no beneficial...
Estrogen treatment had less beneficial effect on memory in female mice that raced on running wheels and played with other toys than in mice raised in non-stimulating environments, according to a Yale study published this month. “We saw no beneficial...