In discovering an approach to creating regenerative sensors, Mark Reed, Yale Professor of Electrical Engineering, has improved the efficacy and precision of biosensors in detecting biomarkers for cancer and other diseases.
Professor Joan A. Steitz has been selected to receive the 2013 Grande Médaille from the French Academy of Sciences.
Reusing potentially contaminated syringes continues to be one of the principal methods of HIV transmission, yet thousands continue to pull the trigger. Yale Professor Robert Heimer travelled to Russia to find out why.
Three members of the Yale Society of Physics Students, Po-Yi Ho BR ’14, Steven Zwick PC ’14, and Robert Davies DC ’13, offer the following
Researchers, including Yale’s Eric Sargis, have used anatomical data to reconstruct a phylogeny of placental mammals. Using these data, they have determined a date of divergence for placental mammals, reconstructed what the most recent common ancestor may have looked like, and challenged previous hypotheses based on solely genetic information.
Researchers at the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity are studying the public health effects of energy drink consumption. They have raised concerns about increasing advertisement toward youth and the limited regulations of manufacturers’ ingredient reporting practices.
Nature recognized Yale Professor Jo Handelsman as one of the ten most influential scientists in the world last year for revealing the persistence of sexism in what is often seen as the world’s most objective community.
Improvements in energy efficiency lead to smaller decreases in consumption than we would expect. Professor Kenneth Gillingham puts numbers on just how much smaller.
Professors Richard A. Flavell and Ruslan M. Medzhitov of the Yale Department of Immunobiology have been selected to receive the 2013 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science.
Yale Psychology Professors Allan Wagner and Susan Holen-Noeksema were given lifetime achievement awards from the APS. The former was recognized for his research on the mechanisms of associative learning, the latter for her work on mood disorders and regulation.