The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) will host the 7th Annual AIDS Science Day on Friday, April 22 at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, 155 Temple St. CIRA–affiliated scientists from Yale, the Hispanic Health Council and The Institute...
Desir (l) and Xu (r) with dialysis machine they hope to make obsolete.(Full Size Image) Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven identified a novel human kidney protein called renalase that...
MicroCT analysis of bone from mice with (M+/M+) and without (M-/M-) IRAK-M.(Full Size Image) Scientists at the Yale School of Medicine identified a molecule in osteoclasts, IRAK-M, that is a key regulator of bone mass. Osteoclasts are cells...
In a study of mothers with a history of preeclampsia, a hypertension complication in pregnancy affecting five percent of all women, researchers at Yale have found that these women have an increased lifetime risk for cardiovascular illness and death. “...
Low doses of the environmental contaminant bisphenol–A (BPA), widely used to make many plastics found in food storage containers, including feeding bottles for infants, can impair brain function, leading to learning disabilities and age–related...
Recurrent miscarriage, stillbirth, preeclampsia, poor fetal growth, preterm delivery and bleeding in pregnancy are influenced by low levels of the anti–clotting proteins Z and S, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the March issue of Journal of...
The Yale (Bush) Center in Child Development and Social Policy, one of the nation’s oldest centers for child and family policy research, has been renamed the Edward Zigler Center for Child Development and Social Policy. The new name honors its founder,...
Young adults who take virginity pledges as adolescents are as likely to be infected with sexually transmitted diseases as those who do not take virginity pledges, Yale and Columbia University researchers report in the March 18 issue of Journal of...
Research in the laboratory of Assistant Professor Frank J. Slack at Yale University has identified a new way that a familiar gene is regulated in lung cancer, presenting new possibilities for diagnosis and treatment. The work is reported in March issues...
Calls to regionalize the care of patients with heart attacks are premature, and do not account for potential unintended consequences, according to a commentary by Yale researchers published in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). “...
