Two Yale School of Medicine investigators—one studying inflammation’s role in cancer and the other studying brain estrogen receptors in men and women—are recipients of new grants from Women’s Health Research at Yale, through its grant-making arm, The...
A Yale University study of overweight people tested the claim that weight bias motivates people to lose weight and found the opposite can be the case – individuals cope with weight stigmatization through a variety of strategies, including eating more food...
The structure of an enzyme that has many regulatory functions and breaks peptide bonds of proteins where they pass through membranes within the cell has been described for the first time by Yale School of Medicine researchers in Nature.The crystallized...
Low levels of oxygen, or hypoxia, may help preserve the unique undifferentiated nature of stem or progenitor cells, according to a report by Yale School of Medicine researchers in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.Stem cell therapy is a possible future...
R. Todd Constable People who carry a particular genetic variation are more likely to respond to stress by becoming depressed and by ruminating on the event, according to a study by researchers at Yale...
Richard Flavell, M.D., Sterling Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and chair of the Section of Immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine, has been named to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), it was announced this week.The IOM was...
David Watts, M.D., a poet, essayist and gastroenterologist at the University of California at San Francisco, will deliver The Howard Spiro Lecture October 12, 2006, at 5 p.m. in the Beaumont Room at Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street.Watts will...
A reception will be held on Thursday, October 12 in honor of Dr. Mel Goldstein, meteorologist for WTNH News Channel 8 and a multiple myeloma cancer survivor.The celebration will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the New Haven Lawn Club and will feature a musical...
The protein Myo1f The protein Myo1f is important in regulating how quickly the immune system mobilizes to fight off infection and may help explain some infection fighting disorders, Yale School of Medicine...
The location and amount of a protein within two separate compartments of a tumor cell may be critical markers predicting survival in colorectal cancer, according to a study at Yale School of Medicine.The study revealed that high levels of the protein...