Yale scientists have discovered the molecular pathway by which maternally inherited deafness appears to occur: Mitochondrial DNA mutations trigger a signaling cascade, resulting in programmed cell death. The study is in the Feb. 17 issue of Cell.How...
There are those for whom a long-distance bicycle ride is often a high-speed workout; the scenery just a whizzing peripheral blur.Frederick Lamp (Photo by Michael Marsland)Frederick Lamp isn’t one of them.He prefers pedaling at a moderate pace, while still...
Dr. Sandra Wolin of Yale School of Medicine, is among 12 investigators to receive a 2012 Novel Research Grant from the Lupus Research Institute (LRI) to conduct innovative work in lupus. The LRI grants support original ideas from what it calls “some of...
When first exposed to cocaine, the adolescent brain launches a strong defensive reaction designed to minimize the drug’s effects, Yale and other scientists have found. Now two new studies by a Yale team identify key genes that regulate this response and...
Timothy Nelson, professor of molecular, cellular & developmental biology, has been awarded an $8.4 million grant by the Plant Genome Research Program of the National Science Foundation to investigate the molecular basis of C4 type photosynthesis — a...