Yale University, on Earth Day 2005, released a report on its environmental performance from 1996 through June 30, 2004. Such a multi–year environmental performance report has never, to Yale’s knowledge, been developed and distributed by any university....
Using X–ray crystallography, researchers at Yale have “seen” the structural basis for antibiotic resistance to common pathogenic bacteria, facilitating design of a new class of antibiotic drugs, according to an article in Cell. In recent years, common...
Alvin Novick, 79, physician, biologist, Yale University professor, and AIDS community leader, died on April 10, 2005 in New Haven. He had prostate cancer. Alvin Novick. (Photo by John Curtis.)(Full Size Image) Professor Novick taught biology at...
The National Academies Keck FUTURES initiative has announced that Yale Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering David LaVan and Andrew Ellington of the University of Texas at Austin are recipients of a FUTURES grant in the amount of $75,000 to...
Yale School of Medicine’s Pediatric Asthma Care Team will provide asthma screenings for the community at Dave McDermott Auto Group, 55 Main St., East Haven on Saturday, April 30 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. In honor of World Asthma Day (May 3), physicians and...
A possible link between lack of sleep (insomnia) and obesity has been traced to hypocretin/orexin cells in the hypothalamus region of the brain that are easily excited and sensitive to stress, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the April issue...
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) will host the 7th Annual AIDS Science Day on Friday, April 22 at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, 155 Temple St. CIRA–affiliated scientists from Yale, the Hispanic Health Council and The Institute...
Emeritus Professor Jack S. Greenberg, 77, of the Physics Department at Yale University died March 30 at the hospital of St Raphael in New Haven where he had been cared for since an injury in January. Emeritus Professor Jack S. Greenberg(Full...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven identified a novel human kidney protein called renalase that regulates both heart contraction and blood pressure, and that is a strong candidate for easily...
Scientists at Yale have genetically designed triggers in the brains of fruit flies that allow the flies’ behavior to be controlled with laser light, according to an article in the April 8 issue of the journal Cell. Laser light activation of fly...