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The Science of Well-Being
Welcome to Issue 84.2 of the Yale Scientific Magazine, the first issue of the 2011 masthead!
Read More »Measuring Food Security Throughout the World
Despite UN goals to slash world hunger in half by 2015, there exists a dearth of data about which regions and households suffer the most from food insecurity. Yale School of Public Health Professor
Read More »Smoking Cessation: A Gain-Framed Counseling Approach
Assistant psychiatry professor Benjamin Toll explores the effects of gain-frame messaging in maximizing effectiveness of smoking cessation counseling
Read More »The Experience of Eating
To elucidate the role of the brain in the experience of eating, members of the John B. Pierce Laboratory at the Yale School of Medicine are using the latest neuroimaging techniques to scan the
Read More »Research Links Sugar Consumption, Fat Production, and Diabetes
Dr. Varman Samuel’s Laboratory at Yale School of Medicine has uncovered a feed-forward mechanism whereby excess sugar consumption may lead to increased fat production in the liver and the ensuing development of diabetes
Read More »The Paradox of Dyslexia: Slow Reading, Fast Thinking
A once hidden disability is brought to light by Drs Bennet and Sally Shaywitz of the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity. Their research connects IQ, reading level, and cognition in dyslexic and typical
Read More »Hunting for Heisenbugs
Yale researchers have created an operating system (OS) called Determinator that can strictly enforce deterministic behavior in parallel computations. Their research may help eliminate the time-dependent bugs and security issues that plague otherwise promising
Read More »What Causes “Asian Glow?”
The Alcohol Flush Reaction, commonly known as Asian Glow, is identified by flushing of the face after consuming alcohol and is caused by a deficient enzyme in the liver.
Read More »Science Start-Ups
Learn how two Yale professors used their research on miRNA silencing to start Mira Dx, a biotech company
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