A tiny bit of genetic material with no previously known function may hold the key to stopping the spread of cancer, researchers at Yale School of Medicine and Sichuan University in Chengdu, China report in two papers in the September 7-11 issue of...
Presenting a united front in the war on obesity, diabetes and other nutrition-related disorders, seven of America’s leading public health and economics experts are urging passage of taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB). Their report, which suggests...
A $64,500 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Program for Museums and Art Conservation will enable Yale to conduct a survey of hundreds of collections of photographs dispersed throughout the University and to create a directory of its vast...
Yale University researchers have found a molecular mechanism that allows the proper mixing of neurons during the formation of columns essential for the operation of the cerebral cortex, they report in the Sept. 16 online issue of the journal Nature....
Award-winning journalist Tom Brokaw will visit Yale as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism on September 22.Brokaw’s lecture on the future of journalism will take place at 5 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall Street. The event is free and...
Forty years ago, doctoral student Joel Rosenbaum asked this question: How are cilia, the tiny thread-like appendages protruding from most cells, formed from molecules in the interior of cells?The answer to this basic biology question asked by Rosenbaum,...
To hear Professor Ramamurti Shankar discuss the subject he teaches, you might expect him to be describing magnificent works of art or timeless poetry: “Beautiful,” “elegant” and “awe-inspiring” are some of the most common adjectives. It’s not until he...
A Yale anthropologist has captured photographic images of a rare, cougar-like cat ranging at night in an endangered Ugandan forest.The images of the African golden cat (Profelis aurata) were taken by a digital infrared camera trap set last year by the...
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan will join Yale University President Richard C. Levin for a conversation before an audience of Yale faculty, students and staff. The discussion will take place at 2:30 p.m on September 22, in Sprague Memorial...
The majority of general surgery residents in the United States say they are satisfied with their training and confident of their ability to perform, but a significant number feel that the hours and stress are straining their family life, and many express...