Every Saturday morning near Wooster Square, the New Haven organization Loaves and Fishes offers food, clothing, and — in partnership with Yale’s Neighborhood Health Project (NHP) — free blood pressure and glucose screenings to neighbors in need. In...
After viruses infected our evolutionary ancestors, bits of viral DNA lodged themselves into their genomes — and we still carry around genetic remnants of those viruses now. Known as endogenous retroviruses, these pieces of ancient invaders aren’t able to...
Geneticists looking inside the nuclear genome for mutations that contribute to disease have long relied on a principal known as constraint modeling, which allows researchers to assess the degree of selective pressure that leads to the purging of certain...
