Yale University researchers reported Tuesday they have found a molecular mechanism by which estrogen improves memory, a finding that may aid the quest to improve cognition in aging women without the negative health effects of hormone therapy. The issue of...
President Richard C. Levin has named Professor Michael Donoghue as the first Vice President for West Campus Planning and Program Development, effective October 1.“Michael’s background as both a leading scientist and a museum director makes him uniquely...
Michael Simons, M.D., a distinguished heart researcher and physician, has been appointed section chief of cardiovascular medicine at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH). Simons assumes his new position at YNHH and YSM on...
Yale University researchers have found a new method to create lasting genetic changes within human cells, opening up the possibility of new treatments for inherited diseases like sickle cell anemia.The researchers corrected a specific defect within a...
Yale School of Medicine researchers reported today that the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA), a building block for polycarbonate plastics found in common household items, causes the loss of connections between brain cells. This synaptic loss may cause memory/...
Yale molecular and evolutionary biologists in collaboration with Department of Energy scientists produced the full genome sequence of Trichoplax, one of nature’s most primitive multicellular organisms, providing a new insight into the evolution of all...
Yale researchers have identified an unusual molecular process in normal tissues that causes RNA molecules produced from separate genes to be clipped and stitched together. The discovery that these rearranged products exist in normal as well as cancerous...
Yale University’s Pasko Rakic, one of the world’s top neurobiologists, received the inaugural Kavli Foundation Prize for Neuroscience during a ceremony on Sept. 9 in Norway.The Yale University School of Medicine neurobiologist shares a $1 million prize...
Yale University scientists have found tiny snippets of RNA are crucial to the formation of blood vessels – a process called angiogenesis that is crucial to everything from early development to heart disease and the spread of cancer. The findings, which...
Yale University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) has received an $11 million grant to support another five years of HIV prevention and health services research. CIRA is one of eight HIV research centers in the United States funded by...