Yale School of Medicine researchers have discovered a protein that is the missing link in the complicated chain of events that lead to Alzheimer’s disease, they report in the Sept. 4 issue of the journal Neuron. Researchers also found that blocking the...
Viruses such as West Nile and dengue have an intriguing way to hijack cells once they have been internalized by the cell. The illustration shows a flavivirus invading a cell by fusing its lipid membrane with the membrane of an endosome, which delivers the...
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History will receive two grants — one to support an educational program and another to bolster its mineralogy collection — from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural...
The basics of conception are familiar to any high school freshman biology student, yet scientists have yet to find the initial molecular mechanisms that set off the cascade of events that form a developing embryo.Yale University geneticists report online...
Becoming obese or remaining lean can depend on the dynamics of the mitochondria, the body’s energy-producing “battery,” according to two new studies by Yale School of Medicine researchers featured as the cover story in the Sept. 26 issue of the journal...
Yale scientists will lead a new four-year, $4.4 million project intended to promote the design of a new generation of chemicals and materials less toxic to humans and the environment.Paul AnastasThe team, which also involves scientists from three other...