New Kavli center for neuroscience research will untangle mysteries of the human brain
A mere 2 millimeters may separate us from other members of the animal kingdom. That’s the approximate thickness of the cerebral cortex, a sinuously folded sheet of tissue on the outermost surface of the brain where the neural machinery resides for many capabilities, such as language and reasoning, that we think of as distinctively human. Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D., the chair and Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neurobiology, has spent a lifetime deciphering how the nervous system cells present...
Yale physiologist elected to National Academy of Sciences
Steven C. Hebert, M.D., spent the early part of his career exploring the kidney’s basic processes using the tools of...
Magazine innovator celebrates 101 years with gifts for his medical school “family”
You don’t have to meet Gus Berkes to learn about his accomplishments. They’re right in front of you whenever you pick...
Pfizer and Yale join forces for research and education
Like many enterprises with international reach, Pfizer Inc. makes its corporate home in New York. But the company has...
Expert on gene swapping joined molecular biology at its very beginnings
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