An individual’s reason for undergoing a medical intervention — be it to prevent or treat disease, earn money, or have a child — may result in variations in the bodily experience of the patient, Yale researchers have found.
A new study published in the...
Patients who choose to receive alternative therapy as treatment for curable cancers instead of conventional cancer treatment have a higher risk of death, according to researchers from the Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy and Effectiveness Research (COPPER)...
Does estrogen affect the way females perceive male sexual signals? That is a question a team of Yale researchers explored in a study, focusing on the female house sparrow.
The research team investigated how female sparrows exposed to estrogen responded to...
People who hear voices — both with and without a diagnosed psychotic illness — are more sensitive than other subjects to a 125-year-old experiment designed to induce hallucinations. And the subjects’ ability to learn that these hallucinations were not...
Two genes act as molecular midwives to the birth of neurons in adult mammals and when inactivated in mice cause symptoms of Fragile X Syndrome, a major cause of mental retardation, a new Yale University study has shown.
In humans as well as mice, most...
Lysosomes are cellular sanitation engineers that help clean up and recycle internal debris no longer needed by cells. So why do researchers find so many lysosomes within the neuronal projections surrounding amyloid plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s...
Scientists have spent decades studying the nature of tumor cells, but few have looked to see what was happening in the surrounding tissue.
When Yale researchers took a closer look at skin cells, they discovered the unaffected neighbor cells are not...
Yale experts and their partners in a national research consortium have identified several genes and gene clusters associated with the immune response to influenza (“flu”) vaccination. The findings point to the prospect of using genetic profiles to predict...