Research led by Anna Marie Pyle, professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University reveals how a protein from Hepatitis C (HCV) unwinds RNA, potentially allowing it be copied. The work published in the journal Nature focuses on an...
A review article by Yale researchers reaffirms that the vast majority of people with cardiovascular disease can travel safely on airlines, provided they follow basic guidelines such as carrying an ample supply of medication or waiting two weeks to travel...
The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression is providing almost $700,000 this year to 11 Yale University and affiliated researchers to study causes and treatment for mental illness. Among the topics NARSAD is supporting at Yale...
Yale surgeon Charles Cha, M.D., has received a Dennis W. Jahnigen Career Development Scholars Award, which was created to encourage young physicians and surgeons to make the geriatric aspects of their disciplines a career focus. Cha, of the Yale School...
Yale University today announced that its Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) has received a $2.1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support HIV prevention research among high-risk populations in India. The...
Heart failure patients who undergo beta-blocker therapy tolerated the treatment well and had less heart failure deterioration than placebo drugs, researchers at Yale School of Medicine and other institutions report in the July 12 issue of Archives of...
Richard L. Edelson, M.D., Director of Yale Cancer Center, has announced the appointment of Ira Mellman as Scientific Director of the Center. Mellman is Sterling Professor of Cell Biology and Immunobiology, and Chair of the Department of Cell Biology at...
James and Marilyn Simons of The Simons Foundation awarded researchers of the Yale Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine $2.6 million to advance autism research and to establish a new laboratory for infants at risk for autism. The principal...
In the brain, low levels of the inhibitory transmitter GABA and high levels of the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate appear to be strongly associated with a particular type of depression, according to a study by Yale researchers. The findings were...
Donor derived endometrial cells were detected in biopsy samples of four women who received bone marrow transplants to treat leukemia, according to a Yale study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. This is the first known report...
