MicroRNAs may be tiny — as few as 20 genetic letters, compared to 3 billion in the DNA of a human — but they play a major role in biology, helping to determine which genes are expressed or silenced. In the last 10 years, researchers at Yale and elsewhere...
The bacterium that causes typhoid fever sickens about 21 million people annually but not other mammals. Researchers at Yale and the University of California-San Diego have discovered an explanation: differences in a single oxygen atom in the human...
Using only data from an fMRI scan, researchers led by a Yale University undergraduate have accurately reconstructed images of human faces as viewed by other people.“It is a form of mind reading,” said Marvin Chun, professor of psychology, cognitive...