Four Yale University professors were recently elected Fellows to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences class of 2003. The newly-elected Fellows are Michel H. Devoret, professor of physics and applied physics; Donald P. Green, A. Whitney Griswold...
Two Yale School of Medicine professors, Linda Bartoshuk, who studies taste receptors, and Arthur Horwich, M.D., who studies protein folding in the cell, are among new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Election to membership in the...
Four Yale University professors were recently elected Fellows to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences class of 2003. The newly-elected Fellows are Michel H. Devoret, professor of physics and applied physics; Donald P. Green, A. Whitney Griswold...
The goal of “Overcoming Dyslexia,” a new book by Yale School of Medicine researcher Sally Shaywitz, M.D., is to translate groundbreaking research on the disorder, including brain imaging studies, into practical methods and programs that can be used by...
Investigators at Yale and Oxford University have been awarded over $3.3 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a five-year study to investigate the genetic and environmental risk factors that increase susceptibility...
Elizabeth Bradley, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine, has become the first Yale researcher to win the John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators. The prize will be presented in June...
Adolescents report high rates of oral sex, more oral sex partners than intercourse partners, and infrequent use of protection from sexually transmitted infections (STIs) during oral sex, a group of Yale researchers has found. The study published in the...
Mice bred with a mutation that leaves them free of the proteins Nogo A/B, which are believed to block re-growth of critical nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord, sprout new axons following spinal cord injury, a Yale research team has found. “In the...
Yale University Provost Susan Hockfield recently announced the appointments of two deputy provosts to help shape and implement the academic, administrative and budgetary policies of the University. Hockfield named Barbara Shailor, currently the director...
Elderly female mice who spent three hours a day racing on running wheels and playing with rodent toys showed a marked improvement in their spatial memory, according to researchers at Yale. The study to be published in the July/August issue of the...
