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New building is ‘a place for great science’
Environmentally friendly features abound in new space for research
“This is the future,” declared Yale President Richard C. Levin at the October 5 ribbon cutting for the medical school’s newest building, a 120,000-square-foot structure at 10 Amistad Street that will house the Interdepartmental Program in Vascular Biology and...
Connecticut high schoolers get a taste of real-world research
They could have spent their summer lounging around at the beach, earning some extra spending money or traveling. But a handful of Connecticut high school juniors found their ideal summer vacation in a less typical...
New NIH program funds scientific ‘innovators’ at Yale
In September, two Yale scientists won Director’s New Innovator Awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the Roadmap for Medical Research Initiative launched by NIH Director Elias Zerhouni, M.D., to...
Advances
Does breastfeeding build better brains?
For some infants, being breastfed means a higher IQ later in life. But for others, breastfeeding...
Read more...As blood courses through the 100,000 miles of vessels in an adult’s circulatory system,...
Read more...Of bugs, bivalves and breathing
Chitin, a tough natural polymer, is an important component of fungal cell walls and the bodies and...
Read more...Adding staying power to brain tumor drugs
When a surgeon removes a brain tumor, it’s routine to leave chemotherapy drugs in place of the...
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