Researchers at Yale have found that injury to endothelial cells — the cells lining blood vessels — may be a key driver of COVID-19 severity and death. The findings, published in the June 30 edition of The Lancet Haematology, may help to explain the...
Researchers at Yale have identified a molecule that plays a key role in the body’s inflammatory response to overeating, which can lead to obesity, diabetes, and other metabolic diseases. The finding suggests that the molecule could be a promising...
Yale clinicians report promising results after treating COVID-19 patients at Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) with a drug that reduces hyperinflammation in cancer patients undergoing immunotherapy.
The team initially gave the drug, tocilizumab, to the most...
A highly unusual school semester has ended, and the coming summer will be unlike any in memory. Families are forgoing backyard barbeques and block parties; cities and towns have cancelled carnivals and Fourth of July festivities. Travel carries extra...
A site co-founded by two Yale researchers for sharing preliminary medical research called medRxiv (pronounced “med archive”) has become a leading source of scientific discovery related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Known as a preprint server — an online...
Infants as young as six months old can recognize differences in skin color. By age two and a half, research has shown, children prefer playmates who are similar in race and gender. And as early as age three, they are forming judgments about people based...
A team of Yale researchers has developed a new app, Hunala, that aims to be the “Waze for coronavirus.”
Led by Sterling Professor Nicholas Christakis, a physician and social networks expert, with colleagues in the Yale School of Engineering and Applied...