A sizable number of parents with autistic children believe early vaccinations are the cause of their children’s condition. However, numerous investigations have failed to provide substantial evidence for either hypothesis. Why, then, do so many people still believe that vaccinations cause autism?
The Shadel lab studies the ways in which mutations in mitochondrial DNA can contribute to aging.
In 2002, Ronald Breaker, incoming department chair of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, discovered riboswitches, and his lab continues to identify new classes of these small functional RNAs.
Recently, Dr. Frank Slack, Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, made further breakthroughs working with these miRNA molecules, specifically with the let-7 miRNA and its use as a lung tumor-suppressor.
Before that development of polishing techniques in the Middle Ages, diamonds were used only in their natural octahedral state due to difficulty in cutting. So why are diamonds so hard to cut?
Angle. Slant. Spin. Whether we are explaining to a professor why we were late to class or telling our friend why our boyfriend broke up
The Ubiquity of Science “Scientific thought is the common heritage of mankind.”- Abdus Salam I have been pursuing science since my chemistry class sophomore year
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.” — John Dewey Welcome to Issue 83.3 of the Yale Scientific
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay, President of the Viewpoints Research Institute, a non-profit organization devoted to
Founded in 1847, the first building of the Sheff School was erected on what is now Farnam Hall. The school was one of the first to incorporate both the sciences and liberal arts into its education.
Richard (Dick) Shank stepped onto Yale’s campus in July of 1942 as a freshman, a member of the class of 1945. Since then, he has been a Yale professor, a residential college dean, and Yale registrar.