Yale scientists and researchers now have a comprehensive online tool they can use to share and discuss research projects, data, lab protocols, results, news of clinical trials and advances in clinical care.It is called the YCCI Research Accelerator (RA),...
For Jessie Papagoda of East Haven, Connecticut, the opening of Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven changed everything.Until last October, Jessie and all cancer patients at Yale had to spend much of their day traveling between several buildings on the...
In the hope of stemming one of the biggest public health crises in Southeast Asia, Yale is partnering with the University of Malaya to fight the spread of HIV among drug users in Malaysia who are completing prison terms and transitioning back into the...
U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut will hold a hearing at Yale University on Monday, July 26, on “The State of the American Child: What’s Working for Connecticut’s Children.” The hearing will begin at 9 a.m. at the Yale Child Study Center,...
West Nile virus tricks mosquitoes into producing a particular protein complex that allows it to survive and be transmitted, Yale researchers report in the Sept. 3 issue of the journal Cell.This molecular survival mechanism helps explain how West Nile...
The resurgence of pertussis (whooping cough) among newborns and adults has spurred a study by Yale School of Medicine and Hospital of Saint Raphael that will gauge whether young mothers and other caregivers will accept the pertussis vaccine if it is...
A ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially mark the opening of the state-of-the-art Yale Health Center will take place October 4 at 11 a.m. at 55 Lock St. Coffee and refreshments will be served at 10 a.m. and tours of the new facility will follow the ribbon-...
A team of Yale University scientists has engineered the cell wall of the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, tricking it into incorporating foreign small molecules and embedding them within the cell wall.The finding, described online in the journal ACS...
Lowering levels of a key protein involved in regulating learning and memory—STtriatal-Enriched tyrosine Phosphatase (STEP)—reversed cognitive deficits in mice with Alzheimer’s disease, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the October 18 issue of...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that new disease pathways involving more than one cell type leads to Type 1 Gaucher disease, a rare genetic disorder in which fatty substances called glycosphingolipids accumulate in cells, resulting in...