Chemical reactions in the Earth’s middle crust that cause rocks to dehydrate and fracture under pressure may trigger repeated earthquakes along some fault zones, according to research published in the Nov. 15 issue of the Geophysical Research Letters,...
James Perrotti, who has served for 25 years on the Yale Police Department and has been its acting chief for the past six months, has been named Chief of Yale University Police. As chief, Perrotti will lead the 77-member Yale police force and will...
Yale and Cornell University biochemists have unveiled the three-dimensional chemical structure of a key protein that is the target of TNP-470, an experimental drug that shows promise for starving cancerous tumors. The discovery could help pharmaceutical...
Yale and Cornell University biochemists have unveiled the three-dimensional chemical structure of a key protein that is the target of TNP-470, an experimental drug that shows promise for starving cancerous tumors. The discovery could help pharmaceutical...
Five Yale University researchers have been awarded $100,000-a-year, five-year grants from the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation, the foundation’s first awards through the Donaghue Investigator Program for Health-related...
In studies at Yale University School of Medicine, rhesus monkeys developed schizophrenia-like symptoms as a result of selective brain damage caused by X-rays during the critical early weeks of fetal development. The monkeys tested normal on a battery...
Long before the dinosaurs ruled Earth, the planet was populated by tiny, wriggling creatures that left behind traces of their passage in the form of elaborate swirls and other patterns permanently preserved in stone. Examples of these and other “...
In a Peruvian valley only recently touched by the pressures of urbanization, Yale University scientists have found evidence of ancient Andean metallurgy dating as far back as 3,400 years ago, almost a millennium earlier than previously thought. Thin...
Henry P. Becton, director emeritus of Becton Dickinson and Company, will present the next Sheffield Fellowship address at Yale University. His talk, titled “Bringing a 100-year-old Company into its Second Century,” will be presented Tuesday, Nov. 17, at...
Shachar Tauber, M.D., recently traveled to Beijing, where he was Laser Education Ambassador to China at the Global Chinese Ophthalmology Congress. Tauber is director of Yale School of Medicine’s new Laser Vision Correction Service and medical...