Dr. Murat Gunel and colleagues at the Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital used advanced genetic technology to map out an 18-month-old girl’s genetic sequence, diagnose her with a rare liver cancer, and provide a cure that opens the door to treating cancer through the use of personalized medicine.
Sterling Professor of Genetics Richard Lifton has been awarded a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his research on the genes and biochemical mechanisms of hypertension.
With a new grant from the National Science Foundation, Yale Professor Eli Fenichel investigates how nations can sustainably and pragmatically respond to increasingly devastating locust outbreaks.
Yale School of Medicine research team finds evidence supporting the use of oxytocin as a treatment for autism spectral disorder.
Students in Professor Marla Geha’s “Research Methods: Astrophysics” class flew to Puerto Rico to conduct research at the Arecibo Observatory.
Saving water in the Serengeti: In ENAS 118: Introduction to Innovation, Engineering and Design, students designed water quality monitoring technology that could benefit millions in the Mara River Basin.
A Yale-led study has found that SIV, which causes AIDS in various non-human primates, leads to disruption of gut microbiome that may give rise to many of the deadly infections that compromise host health.
To help reduce CO2 and emissions from fossil fuels, recent research suggests that more wood should be used in construction and burned for fuel.
Research on the Virgo Cluster dwarf galaxy IC4318 led by Yale astrophysicist Dr. Jeffery Kenney reveals several important processes in galaxy evolution.
Yale researchers’ recent study published in PLOS Pathogens will help us treat Dengue fever, a growing international public health issue.
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis is one of mankind’s deadliest and most mysterious lung diseases. A new study led by Yale School of Medicine, however, is beginning to shed light on IPF’s previously uncharted territory.
James Rothman ’71, Professor of Cell Biology at Yale, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.