As cells age, they accumulate signs of DNA damage. Breaks in both strands of the DNA molecule are especially toxic and have been linked to increased genomic instability and cancer risk with age. A new Yale study of yeast quantifies how the age of a cell...
To overcome an infection, the immune system has to both kill the invading virus or bacterium, and tolerate the inflammation triggered by the infection. In a new study, Yale researchers have figured out a key component of the second infection-fighting...
Immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of cancer in the last decade, yet many tumors do not respond to these new therapies. A new genome-wide screen of 20,000 human genes in T cells have turned up several new candidates to unleash the immune...
Tina Lu and Dr. Nenad Sestan were appointed to endowed professorships.
Lu, named as the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, is a scholar and educator whose research and teaching focus on the literature of China’s late...