Yale doctors have developed a way to create vascular grafts from stem cells that are as strong as the original blood vessels they would replace.
The advance, demonstrated in an animal model, may lead to bioengineered grafts suitable for transplant into...
It was just a rash.
Sandra Rosales of Stratford, Connecticut, noticed it on her leg one day at the end of May 2015. Just some little red spots that hadn’t been there the day before.
“I thought I had the flu,” she said. “I was like, ‘Oh, who knows,...
When they’re not treating patients with heart disease, Drs. Nihar Desai and Tariq Ahmad are hard at work revising the definition of heart disease.
Ahmad, an assistant professor in the section of cardiovascular medicine at the Yale School of Medicine,...
Before scientists develop the bioengineered tissue of tomorrow for treating pulmonary diseases, they need to identify the best methods for growing tissue for artificial trachea and lungs in experiments today.
A new Yale analysis does just that,...
Amid the whirlwind of changes to campus life wrought by the onset and spread of coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19), the Yale Center for Genome Analysis is performing a vital role in the fight against the virus.
The center, located on Yale’s West Campus, is one...
As the world grapples with waves of patients from the coronavirus pandemic, Yale has moved aggressively to make emergency campus housing available for medical personnel on the front lines of the fight against the virus.
By April 3, Yale had prepared 300...
One of the biggest challenges facing scientists, public health experts, and society itself during the COVID-19 crisis is the need to develop an effective vaccine for the virus that causes the disease.
Researchers around the world are racing to develop...
The multi-hospital Yale New Haven Health system will assume operation of Yale University’s Lanman Center field hospital in a collaboration that increases the system’s patient capacity and enables expanded access to medical care for the people of greater...
A week after Yale closed its labs to all but the most critical work amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Eric Paulson, director of the Chemical and Biophysical Instrumentation Center (CBIC), got a request.
New England Discovery Partners, a small, contract research...
Behind every good idea for a drug to fight COVID-19, there’s often a good library of chemicals.
At Yale, that library is at the Yale Center for Molecular Discovery (YCMD) — home to collections of 300,000 small molecules and 18,000 genomic probes....