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The researchers are looking for little known viruses in certain samples to try to identify new diseases before they become a threat. “COVID came as a surprise. All of the sudden, there was an outbreak, and people discovered that there was a new virus that could cause an illness,” Dr. Ellen Foxman, Yale School of Medicine immunologist, said. “What we want to do going forward is be able to get ahead of that.”
- January 18, 2023Source: WTNH
New scientific data reveals that children can have the COVID-19 virus without knowing they have it, allowing them to then easily spread it to others.
- January 12, 2023Source: Knowable magazine
The ‘tripledemic’ unfolding this winter is one of several odd trends among respiratory virus infections these last years. Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate.
- January 11, 2023
Daniel C. DiMaio, MD, PhD, was presented with the Yale Cancer Center Lifetime Achievement Award by Dr. Eric Winer at the Yale Cancer Center Conclave on January 5, 2023.
- January 03, 2023Source: YaleNews
A new Yale-led study finds that testing for a single immune system molecule on nasal swabs can help detect stealthy viruses not identified in standard tests.
- December 28, 2022
Postdoctoral positions are available in the Liu lab in the Microbial Sciences Institute at Yale University to participate in cutting-edge research using high-throughput cryo-ET technology to determine the structural mechanisms of molecular machines essential for bacterial pathogenesis and viral infection.
- December 21, 2022
Million Dollar Endowment Helps Bring Global Biomedical Leadership Program to Yale School of Medicine
The Global Biomedical Leaders Program will bring trainees to Yale to work on their research with mentorship from Yale faculty.
- December 19, 2022
We talk a lot about the role that physician-scientists play as “interpreters” and “translators” between the worlds of medicine and research. But that often means stepping outside of one’s narrow area of scientific expertise to help colleagues and trainees understand clinically relevant data that informs patient care, even if it’s far from what you look at in your own research.
- December 15, 2022Source: CT Mirror
Connecticut’s COVID hospitalizations have risen by 58% over the last four weeks, and with families and colleagues preparing to gather for the holidays, health officials are urging people to don masks indoors and consider the well-being of others as they go about the seasonal bustle.
- December 07, 2022Source: Community Health Center
WHRY collaborator Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, joins Fiona Lowenstein, editor of “The Long COVID Survival Guide,” to discuss patients who say they’re suffering from Long COVID for as much as two years after their acute phase of the disease. Listen to their discussion as part of "Conversations on Health Care."