Salmonella becomes dangerously virulent only when molecular sensors within the organism sense changes in the environment, a team of researchers from the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale Microbial Diversity Institute report in the June 14 issue of the...
Alison Galvani, a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Heath, has received the New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists for her work in developing mathematical models of disease outbreaks.Alison GalvaniThe models...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have zeroed in on a set of neurons in the part of the brain that controls hunger, and found that these neurons are not only associated with overeating, but also linked to non-food associated behaviors, like novelty-...
“The Art of Public Health,” an exhibition of posters produced through a collaboration between students at Yale’s Schools of Art and Public Health, will be on view at the State Capitol in Hartford July 9–20.More than two dozen posters will be on exhibit,...
Yale scientists have been awarded competitive National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to establish a new research center that will develop gender-sensitive treatments to aid women in quitting smoking.Sherry McKeeTobacco use is the leading preventable...
Washington’s Puget Sound is an elaborate system of waterways teeming with life and closely linked to many people’s livelihoods.Eric Becker (Photo by John Keatley)And while all may appear well on the water’s surface, the health of the Sound is under...
A mysterious protein produced by a wide spectrum of living things is crucial in regulating the immune response to the most common form of pneumonia, a new Yale School of Medicine study shows. The study appears online in Cell Host & Microbe and in the...