Congratulations to Sameer Gupta and James Luccarelli, the two motivated and talented Yale seniors who received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship in 2009.
Professor Ronald Duman’s research into depression has both clarified parts of existing antidepressant pathways and discovered an entirely new one involving ketamine.
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons In the last century, American life expectancy has more than doubled from forty-seven years in 1900 to seventy-eight in 2019.
Image Courtesy of Catherine Kwon. The Galapagos Islands have been an archetypal example of evolution and natural selection since 1835, when famed naturalist Charles Darwin
A recent study led by Yale researchers indicates that the hormone FGF21 may help protect against the collapse of the immune system with age by preventing the degradation of the thymus. This discovery may offer a promising treatment for improving immunity in the elderly, as well as for helping cancer patients following bone marrow transplants.
Researchers from the Yale Alzheimer’s Disease Research Unit have investigated the relationship between two key hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease in living people. With a better understanding of this relationship, researchers may soon have a better insight into the cause of Alzheimer’s, paving the way for developing potential disease-modifying treatments.
A molecule in your jam plays a role in the twisting of flower petals. Yale Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Vivian Irish, studies how a genetic mutation causes epidermal cells and flower organs to twist.
Image courtesy of Pixabay. After a night of pouring rain and howling winds, when you open your window and take a deep breath of crisp
The molecular instructions involved in building an embryo are complex and beautiful, but not fully understood. Through studying zebrafish embryogenesis in the Nicoli Lab at
Honey bees and the bacteria in their guts depend on each other, yet the precise nature of this relationship is largely unknown.