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A crash course in real-world research
The School of Medicine’s summer internships immerse high school students in research projects and take science education beyond the classroom
John Solder, a 17-year-old who will be a senior at Staples High School, in Westport, Conn., this fall, has a summer internship in the School of Medicine laboratory of Ralph J. DiLeone, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and neurobiology. But Solder isn’t fetching...
Study finds key player in polycystic diseases of both kidney and liver
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), the most common form of polycystic kidney disease, is an inherited disorder in which the formation of multiple renal cysts leads to kidney failure. Cysts can also...
A surgeon’s rare skills heal a man in need
While still in high school in Haiti in 2001, Norbert Tibeau began having severe headaches, but it would be seven years before he finally saw a doctor. By then Tibeau’s headaches were lasting for up to a week. He was...
Must kicking the tobacco habit cause weight gain?
Yale scientists have thrown new light on an ugly truth about smoking: though cigarettes can kill you, most smokers are thinner than their non-smoking peers. Many people take up smoking, or resist quitting, because...
Advances
Many of us turn to antihistamines to deal with itch caused by seasonal nuisances such as mosquito...
Read more...Opioid abusers have supplies close to home
The widespread illicit use of opioid painkillers begins more in bathroom medicine cabinets than...
Read more...Diet, diabetes, and a gene called mINDY
Tamping down expression of the fruit fly gene Indy improves mitochondrial function, mimicking the...
Read more...Could digestive woes be contagious?
In the digestive system, many trillions of bacteria subsist in a delicately balanced ecosystem...
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