High expression of TRAIL-R2, a cell surface receptor that triggers cell death, has been shown to be associated with a decrease in the survival rates of breast cancer patients according to a study published by Yale Cancer Center researchers in Clinical...
A celebration to mark the renaming of the Yale (Bush) Center in Child Development and Social Policy to the The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy, will take place Monday, July 25 from 11 a.m. to noon in the Donald J. Cohen...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and seven other national institutions are recruiting patients to participate in the Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study (KEEPS) to look at the effects of estrogen on heart disease prevention. The study will...
July 14, 2005 — National experts in the fields of child development and education will share strategies for responding to the needs of the nation’s children and families at the 17th annual School of the 21st Century (21C) National Conference at Yale,...
July 13, 2005 — In response to the recent press announcements of the hospitalization of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, the following contact information may be useful to your office: Dr. Robert Udelsman, Chairman of the Yale School of Medicine...
July 13, 2005 — People who drink alcohol have a lower risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) than non-drinkers, researchers at Yale’s Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH) write in an article published in Lancet Oncology. Led by former EPH...
July 7, 2005 — The Gerber Foundation has awarded Yale School of Medicine researcher Thomas Carpenter, M.D., $844,000 over three years to study biomarkers of dietary calcium insufficiency in inner city infants. Carpenter, professor of endocrinology and...
July 1, 2005 — A five–year, $8.5–million dollar research project, designed to substantially reduce the spread of malaria by redirecting mosquitoes with odor cues, is being undertaken by an international team of scientists including John Carlson, the...
July 1, 2005 — Yale has been offered $17 million from the Grand Challenges in Global health initiative to genetically engineer mice with immune systems similar enough to humans to aid in testing the safety and effectiveness of potential vaccines. Funded...
An alignment between the C. elegans and human genes; the C. elegans lin-4 gene is found in humans, conserved as human mir-125. Genes that control the timing of organ formation during development also control timing of aging and death,...
