Low doses of the environmental contaminant bisphenol–A (BPA), widely used to make many plastics found in food storage containers, including feeding bottles for infants, can impair brain function, leading to learning disabilities and age–related...
“Funding Opportunities for Bioscience Technologies,” a workshop sponsored by the Connecticut Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Office will be held at Yale from 8:30 a.m. – 12 noon on April 12 in the Anlyan...
Robert D. Grober, Yale professor of Applied Physics and Physics, has combined his passion for golf and his professional expertise to produce a unique and effective real–time audio biofeedback device for teaching and training golf. Grober “hears”...
A Yale book that explores the ability of the marketplace to reverse global forest destruction has won the 2005 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for the best book of the year on environmental policy and politics. “Governing Through Markets: Forest...
Recurrent miscarriage, stillbirth, preeclampsia, poor fetal growth, preterm delivery and bleeding in pregnancy are influenced by low levels of the anti–clotting proteins Z and S, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the March issue of Journal of...
The Yale (Bush) Center in Child Development and Social Policy, one of the nation’s oldest centers for child and family policy research, has been renamed the Edward Zigler Center for Child Development and Social Policy. The new name honors its founder,...
Research in the laboratory of Assistant Professor Frank J. Slack at Yale University has identified a new way that a familiar gene is regulated in lung cancer, presenting new possibilities for diagnosis and treatment. The work is reported in March issues...
Calls to regionalize the care of patients with heart attacks are premature, and do not account for potential unintended consequences, according to a commentary by Yale researchers published in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). “...
Applied Spine Technologies (AST), an emerging surgical implant company developing the M–Brace™ System, a stabilization device that supports the spine while preserving motion and flexibility, received $15 million in venture capital to commercialize the...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that specific substances in the urine of pregnant women could serve as a screening/diagnostic tool for preeclampsia (hypertension and proteinuria during pregnancy). The study is published in March issue...