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March 2015

Q&A: What Causes Happy Tears?

People have accepted tears of joy as commonplace for years, but Yale postdoctoral associate Oriana Aragón seeks to understand the science behind them.

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Undergraduate Profile: Genevieve Fowler ’16

Throughout her time at Yale, mechanical engineering major Genevieve Fowler ’16 has not only made her technological impact on the engineering world, but has exemplified the spirit of enthusiasm and creativity that is needed to be a successful STEM student.

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Alumni Profile: Matthew Blumberg ’90

A new form of digital philanthropy is using a computer’s unused processing power to help support research on malaria, AIDS and cancer. Yale alum Matthew Blumberg (YC ‘90) is the founder of a nonprofit organization that allows people to volunteer their spare computing power to provide supercomputing resources for scientific research.

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Muscle Builders

Researchers at Duke University have developed a lab-grown model of human skeletal muscle that not only contracts in response to electrical stimuli, but also mimics human muscle in its response to a variety of drugs. The study has important implications for safer preclinical trials.

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Birds and Better Drones

Stanford scientists have invented a new device to measure the lift created by flying birds. This new machine provides the most accurate measures yet of aerodynamic forces, and has exciting implications on the development of small drones.

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Two Signals to Make an Oncogene

Yale immunobiology professor Ruslan Medzhitov has published research that lends support to the two-hit hypothesis of cancer development. The identification of key proteins Yap and IL-6 opens the door for new methods of treating liver cancer.

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A Better Battery

A team led by Yale postdoctoral student Dr. Won-Hee Ryu has engineered an ingenious catalytic membrane design that increases cyclability for lithium-air batteries.

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