The ability to maintain mental representations of ourselves and the world — the fundamental building block of human cognition — arises from the firing of highly evolved neuronal circuits, a process that is weakened in schizophrenia. In a new study,...
Typhoid fever is one of the oldest documented diseases known to have afflicted mankind but what makes it so lethal has remained a mystery for centuries. In a study appearing online July 10 in the journal Nature, Yale researchers offer an explanation of...
Yale’s Joan Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has been named the 2013 Grand Medal winner by the French Academy of Sciences.Joan SteitzEach year, the Grande Médaille,...
The widespread rejection of estrogen therapy after the 2002 Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study has most likely led to almost 50,000 unnecessary deaths over the last 10 years among women aged 50 to 69 who have had a hysterectomy, Yale School of Medicine...
A biomedical engineer from Johns Hopkins University has been named to head the Systems Biology Institute at Yale’s West Campus.Andre LevchenkoAndre Levchenko has been named the John C. Malone Professor of Biomedical Engineering as well as inaugural...