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Scientists Receive Grants to Study Ovarian Cancer
In an attempt to improve the survival rate of women suffering from ovarian cancer, Dr. Gil Mor and Dr. Alessandro Santin of the Yale School of Medicine have collectively received over $5 million in
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Expanding the Genetic Code: Discovery of Two New Amino Acids
In high school biology classes, we learn that there are 20 amino acids. But in the past two decades, researchers have discovered two additional amino acids that are incorporated into natural genetic codes –
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Determining the Effects of desPLEX
Scientists working under Hugh Taylor, a professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science and the section chief of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Yale School of Medicine, have come one step
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Memory and Emotion: What Rats can Teach Us
The neurobiological substrates of memory and emotion have eluded neuroscientists for decades, but Yale’s researchers are shedding light on the mechanisms by which our brains remember by exploring emotional memory processing in rats
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Alumnus Profile: Cheryl Hayashi SM ’88: “From Science Hill to Spider Silk Studies”
Cheryl Hayashi SM ’88 (Ph.D. ’96), a 2007 MacArthur Fellow, has had a lifelong curiosity about nature, and a Yale campus job feeding a spider colony in a lab eventually propelled her into research
Read More »Everyday Q&A: How do SSRIs work?
The most popular type of antidepressant today is the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), such as Prozac, Zoloft, or Lexapro, introduced in
Read More »Everyday Q&A: How does aging affect memory?
In general, older people have more difficulty learning new things, retrieving old information, and multitasking. In order to understand what causes this weakening, we must first understand how memory works
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Natural Birth May Lead to Better Baby Bonding
Yale Child Study Center Assistant Professor James Swain, M.D. recently published an article in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry examining the relationship between a mother’s bond to her baby and the method
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The Return of the Fairy Shrimp
In the late 1950s, the fairy shrimp Eubranchipus holmani appeared to have vanished. However, Dr. Eric A. Lazo-Wasem, senior collections manager in the Peabody Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology, has rediscovered a population of
Read More »Karyn Frick Awarded Medtronic Prize for Women’s Health Research
Yale associate professor of psychology Karyn Frick was awarded the third annual Society for Women’s Health Research Medtronic Prize for Scientific Contributions to Women’s Health
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