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A Hard Case: Shucking the Mollusk Mystery
A new fossil find clarifies the evolution of a group of mollusks and provides insights into mollusk evolution overall
Read More »Tweezing out the SNARE Complex
A novel single-molecule approach using "optical tweezers" provides new detail into the process of membrane fusion
Read More »A Bat’s World
Professor Roman Kuc studies bat echolocation to help build new sonar systems for robots
Read More »Fighting the Freeze: How Antarctica’s Shifting Landscape Shaped Notothenioid Evolution
The story of the notothenioids illustrates how relatively small changes in temperature have led to major differences in species survival
Read More »Prenatal Prescience: A New Method for Prenatal Genome Sequencing
A new procedure can predict almost all of a fetus's genome by comparing its parents' genomes to fetal DNA in maternal blood
Read More »Demystifying Consciousness
A combination of advances in brain imaging and genetics is revealing that consciousness resides not in a particular area of the brain, but in interactions between them
Read More »A “Prime” New Strategy for Herpes Vaccination
Research from the Iwasaki lab suggests that vaccines against herpes may be improved by "pulling" in T cells to boost the immune reaction
Read More »Yale iGEM Advances Innovation to World Stage
The Yale iGEM team has advanced to the iGEM World Championships with their project using naturally-competent bacteria to improve artificial selection methods
Read More »Carfilzomib: The Latest Triumph of Targeted Therapies Development
After a 14-year process, carfilzomib, a cancer drug developed from a natural product by Dr. Craig Crews' lab, has received FDA approval
Read More »Curing the “Bubble Boy”
Based on recent trials, gene therapy may provide a new avenue for treating the serious immune disorder ADA-
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