“Finger Rafting” is the block zippered pattern that forms when thin ice sheets floating on water collide creating “fingers” that push over and under each other alternately. This photo was taken off the Antarctic coast, [photo by W...
Scanning electron microscope image of A. baumannii, with maps of its genome (outer circle) and alien island sequences (inner circle – red). [Courtesy of J.Carr/CDC, T.Gianoulis and D.Massa/ Yale...
Frank J. Slack Two distinguished Yale scientists have been named Senior Scholars in Aging research by the Ellison Medical Foundation, a four-year award made to established investigators for research into...
The Sloan Foundation announced that three exceptional young scientists at Yale University will be honored as two-year Research Fellows, beginning September 1, 2007.The Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 to provide support and recognition...
Fred R. Volkmar, M.D. Yale School of Medicine autism experts Fred R. Volkmar, M.D., and Ami Klin are part of a global research consortium from 19 countries that identified an individual gene and a region of...
A debate on road development in the Amazon will take place on Saturday, February 17, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. The forum will examine whether development facilitates deforestation and illegal logging or whether...
Hugh S. Taylor, M.D. The contaminant bisphenol-A (BPA)—widely used to make many plastics found in food storage containers and dental products—can have long-term effects in female development, according to a...
Hür Köser Yale engineers who study both flow hydrodynamics and how bacteria propel themselves report that one reason for the high incidence of infections associated with catheters in hospital patients may...
Cartoon image of phi-6 (Dennis Bamford/University of Helsinki). While human changes to the environment cause conservation biologists to worry about species extinction, Yale biologists are reversing the...
Abnormal proteins in amniotic fluid that signal a higher risk of delivering prematurely are being detected with increasing accuracy by Yale School of Medicine researchers who presented their work in two abstracts at the...