It took a global pandemic, but the critical role of messenger RNA in all of life’s functions has taken center stage in the past year with the successful rollout of mRNA vaccines to combat the SARS-Cov-2 virus.
In two new papers published the week of Jan....
This month, Insights & Outcomes winds its way through tick proteins, antibodies that fight the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and stretchy cell membranes. There’s also time to check in on a cholesterol regulator and the racing stripes that play a role in male...
The brain has its own housekeeping service, a sophisticated mechanism that cleans up debris that is left over from cellular activity. But scientists have had a hard time figuring out exactly how the brain knows when to initiate this cellular “trash pickup...
Two Yale faculty members, Donald Engelman and Debra Fischer, have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.
Engelman is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular...
For a new book, two Yale researchers and a colleague from Oxford take a novel approach to explore the interrelated complexities of the brain: They talk it out.
In “Body, Brain, Behavior: Three Views and a Conversation,” co-authored by Tamas Horvath and...