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Yale has made advances that have changed how doctors and patients grapple with diabetes.
- September 13, 2023
Scientists reveal the 3D architecture and mechanism of mechanosensory corpuscles, a group of cells that act as a touch detector.
- May 22, 2023
Marie Egan of YSM’s Department of Pediatrics has had a long and successful career helping patients and advancing research. Her advice to new doctors? Don’t dip your toe in the water: jump in.
- November 15, 2022
Since arriving at Yale School of Medicine in 2021, Madhav C. Menon, MBBS, MD, associate professor (nephrology), has published numerous research studies that have been widely discussed.
- March 16, 2022
“This is the first time we actually know how different body signals are being represented through the vagal interoception system to the brain in a very precise and accurate manner,” says co-senior investigator Rui Chang, PhD. “We know that the brain can very precisely discriminate signals, but what is the biological reason for that discrimination?”
- January 04, 2022
Hoy Shen, Assistant professor of Cellular & Molecular Physiology, has received a 1907 Trailblazer Award for her research into metabolic mechanisms in the brain that might cause mental illness. The award, from the 1907 Foundation, aims to support innovative ideas with high impact potential in our understanding of mental illness through brain and mind research. https://www.1907.foundation/blog/1907-foundation-announces-the-two-young-mental-health-scientists-selected-for-the-second-annual-1907-trailblazer-award
- June 22, 2021
Hoy Shen, an assistant professor of Cellular & Molecular Physiology, has received a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neurosciences from the Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund and the Simons Foundation.
- May 03, 2021
Yale Physiology researchers found that sperm hyperactivation is an evolutionary conserved mechanism to penetrate the egg barriers, used as early as in monotreme but diverged to use it as a way of navigation in the female reproductive tract when it become more complicated in placenta mammals.
- March 03, 2021Source: How Do Blind Worms See the Color Blue?
The laboratory of Dr. Michael Nitabach discovered that C. elegans, despite lacking eyes and opsin genes, can discriminate between colors to guide foraging decisions. The study is published in the Science journal (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6533/1059) and is accompanied by a perspective article by Lauren Neal, Leslie Vosshall (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6533/995)