The Pew Charitable Trusts has named Yale University faculty member and stem cell researcher Valerie Horsley, Ph.D., as a 2010 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.This program enables scientists who are early in their careers to expand their research...
Children significantly prefer the taste of junk foods branded with licensed cartoon characters on the packaging, compared with the same foods without characters, finds a new study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. The...
A new $5 million meningioma study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will seek to identify genes associated with meningioma, the most frequently reported primary intracranial tumor in the United States.Under the leadership of Elizabeth B....
Through textures, shapes, weights and temperatures, the sense of touch influences both our thoughts and behavior.In a series of six experiments documented in the June 25 issue of the journal Science, a Yale-led team of psychologists demonstrated how...
Yale University Library has received a grant of $250,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support “The New England Indian Papers Series: The Connecticut Colony Collection, 1603–1783,” an online compendium of important and rare...
Yale University engineers have for the first time created 3D models of whole intact mouse organs, a feat they accomplished using fluorescence microscopy. The team reports its findings in the May/June issue of the Journal of Biomedical Optics, in a study...
A Yale University-led team of scientists reports that it has achieved an important first step in regenerating fully functional lung tissue that can exchange gas, which is the key role of the lungs. Their paper appears in the June 24 issue of Science...
A year-long clinical trial by Yale University and other institutions showed that treatment with sensor-augmented insulin pumps, which include a system of continuous glucose monitoring, leads to significantly greater control of type 1 diabetes than a daily...
Yale University’s Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, 180 York Street, will host the exhibition “Material Meets Metaphor: A Half Century of Book Art by Richard Minsky” from August 2 through November 29.The exhibition covers 50 years of Minsky’s work —...
Two Yale scientists have received a $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study hepatitis C virus (HCV), a deadly pathogen that attacks the liver and afflicts about 170 million people worldwide.Anna Marie Pyle, the William Edward...