Yale School of Medicine researchers reported today that the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA), a building block for polycarbonate plastics found in common household items, causes the loss of connections between brain cells. This synaptic loss may cause memory/...
Yale molecular and evolutionary biologists in collaboration with Department of Energy scientists produced the full genome sequence of Trichoplax, one of nature’s most primitive multicellular organisms, providing a new insight into the evolution of all...
Yale researchers have identified an unusual molecular process in normal tissues that causes RNA molecules produced from separate genes to be clipped and stitched together. The discovery that these rearranged products exist in normal as well as cancerous...
Yale University’s Pasko Rakic, one of the world’s top neurobiologists, received the inaugural Kavli Foundation Prize for Neuroscience during a ceremony on Sept. 9 in Norway.The Yale University School of Medicine neurobiologist shares a $1 million prize...
Yale University scientists have found tiny snippets of RNA are crucial to the formation of blood vessels – a process called angiogenesis that is crucial to everything from early development to heart disease and the spread of cancer. The findings, which...
Yale University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) has received an $11 million grant to support another five years of HIV prevention and health services research. CIRA is one of eight HIV research centers in the United States funded by...
Intelligence offers some protection against succumbing to immediate gratification, but psychologists have been unsure why. Yale University researchers report that they may have found the first clue to the mystery in an area of the brain that governs...
Researchers at Yale University have found that healthy foods are significantly less available and that produce tends to be of poorer quality in low-income areas than in wealthier neighborhoods.
Two studies by research scientists at the Rudd Center for...
The bonds that tie a mother to her newborn may be stronger in women who deliver naturally than in those who deliver by cesarean section, according to a study published by Yale School of Medicine researchers in the October issue of Journal of Child...
Yale researchers have shown that the origin and evolution of the placenta and uterus in mammals is associated with evolutionary changes in a single regulatory protein, according to a report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Many past...