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Autoimmunity: finding common ground
The shared biological mechanisms of diverse autoimmune disorders inspire a united research effort
Among researchers who study the adaptive immune system, generally speaking, you’re a T cell person or a B cell person. Kevan Herold, M.D., professor of immunobiology and medicine, studies T cells, so called because they mature in the thymus. Herold’s colleague, Eric...
Autoimmunity: research on many fronts
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)IBD is a group of inflammatory conditions of the colon and small intestine that includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.Clara Abraham, M.D. Assistant professor of medicineJudy H....
Study finds improved heart attack care
Patients with heart disease have benefitted enormously from advances in cardiology over the last few decades, including cholesterol-lowering statin drugs and better blood pressure medications. And if a heart attack...
‘Stimulus package’ grants saving jobs, building infrastructure, advancing research at Yale
The $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), colloquially known as “the stimulus package,” is helping to construct and repair roads and bridges, weatherize buildings, and create a new energy...
Campaign gifts can sustain the "stimulus package"
As described in our article on stimulus funding, researchers at the School of Medicine landed over $100 million in grants from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) to fund their research for the...
Advances
Bending the curve: drug halts kidney cysts
About one-half of patients with the most common form of polycystic kidney disease (PKD), which...
Read more...A good drug is better when parents can help
Children with pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs) — autism, Asperger disorder, and related...
Read more...Sniffing out a strategy to defeat malaria
Humans spend $10 billion per year on deodorants, but to mosquitoes — including Anopheles gambiae,...
Read more...Appreciating RNA in a whole new way
Not so long ago, biology textbooks depicted proteins as the workhorses that carry out most...
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