On Oct. 6, Yale's Schools of Medicine and of Public Health hosted a press conference convened by Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy to receive the state’s final report and strategic plan on fighting the opioid epidemic. Earlier this summer Malloy...
All cancers originate from an earlier, or precursor, state such as a benign or asymptomatic condition. To develop new approaches to cancer prevention, scientists have attempted to grow tumor cells from precursor states in animal models. A major deficiency...
Ovarian cancer is difficult to diagnose at early stages. Once it has spread beyond the ovaries, it is more challenging to treat and can be fatal. During metastasis, ovarian tumor cells detach from the primary tumor site and migrate to the abdominal cavity...
A Yale-led research team has identified an important enzyme that could lead to new therapies for a chronic fatal lung disease that affects hundreds of thousands in the United States each year.Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) causes scar tissue inside...
(Left) Blood smears from anemic mice indicate irregular shapes of red blood cells; (right) wild type mice indicate normal shapes of red blood cells.A Yale-led research team used a new gene editing strategy to correct mutations that cause thalassemia, a...
Yale researchers have partnered with investigators at leading research institutions in Connecticut, and with a prestigious counterpart in Israel, to fill a research void in the field of metabolic diseases, which affect billions of people worldwide.
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