The National Institutes of Health has established a Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Center at Yale with a four-year, $3.6 million grant. The center, one of three funded nationally, will help expand work to improve the care and outcomes of cardiovascular...
A team of Yale University scientists has engineered the cell wall of the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, tricking it into incorporating foreign small molecules and embedding them within the cell wall.The finding, described online in the journal ACS...
Scientists once believed that proteins govern most cellular activities. However in recent years scientists have found that a diverse group of RNA molecules regulate numerous biological activities. Despite their ancient origin, these RNA molecules have...
Yale School of Medicine Professor Amy Justice, M.D., PhD, has been invited to the White House to give a presentation on HIV and aging. Justice’s appearance, as part of a larger meeting on the subject, will take place on October 27, between 8:30 A.M. and...
Last Friday, a bright, crisp October morning, about 125 men and women gathered in Amistad Park, donned pink hard hats and assembled themselves into a human pink ribbon — the international symbol of breast cancer awareness. Their goal was to urge all women...
In their new book, “Winner-Take-All Politics,” professors Jacob S. Hacker, Yale University, and Paul Pierson, University of California Berkeley, chronicle a systematic redistribution of wealth in the United States over the last 30 years that has greatly...
Yale University’s Nancy Moran, the William H. Fleming Professor of Biology, has been awarded the International Prize for Biology by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science for her work on symbiotic relationships between insects and bacteria that...
Four Yale School of Medicine faculty members and one adjunct professor were among 65 people elected to the Institute of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the field of health and medicine.“Election of five faculty in one year attests to the...
During Elon Musk’s recent appearance on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert asked his guest: “Where do you find time for your secret identity as Batman?” The audience burst into laughter.It was just another punch line, but Colbert’s comparison of...
Election to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) is one of the most prestigious awards a person working in the healthcare field can receive. So when 5 of 65 newly elected IOM members hail from the same medical school — as has happened at Yale — that can make a...