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According to a recent Yale study, inhaling vapor from flavored e-cigarette liquid exposes users to previously undetected chemical byproducts called acetals. As a result of the study, the authors hope the FDA will begin to study the short- and long-term effects of inhaled acetals.
- August 20, 2019
A new Yale study of yeast quantifies how the age of a cell affects the repair of DNA double-strand breaks.
- August 16, 2019
Research opportunities in radiology & biomedical imaging provided a launching platform for Mansur Ghani, MD, who graduated from Yale School of Medicine in May.
- August 15, 2019
Yale School of Public Health Elihu Professor of Biostatistics Jeffrey Townsend has received a $4 million grant to study fungal evolution and disease progression.
- August 15, 2019
The school's newest students take their place among the giants who preceded them.
- August 14, 2019
The annual lecture in memory of Patricia Goldman-Rakic, PhD, will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 4. The speaker will be Xiao-Jing Wang, PhD, of New York University. The Kavli Distinguished Lecture by R. Clay Reid, MD, PhD, of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, will be Thursday, Sept. 12.
- August 13, 2019
As the U.S. population ages, improving the care of older adults is more important than ever. Mary Tinetti, MD, Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and section chief (Geriatrics), describes a $3.75 million Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP) award as an opportunity for Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and its partners to create an age-friendly health environment across parts of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York.
- August 13, 2019
Robin A. de Graaf, PhD, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, is the author of the long-running textbook In Vivo NMR Spectroscopy. The third edition of the book was recently published by Wiley.
- August 13, 2019
A new YSPH study finds that in older marriages, husbands benefit more from mutual caregiving than wives and wives feel more distressed in such relationships.
- August 13, 2019
Zhengxin (Jason) Cai, PhD, Assistant Professor, Yale University PET Center, has been awarded an Exploratory/Development R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Cai’s research project titled, "Development of BBB Permeable PD-L1 PET Imaging Agents,” will involve synthesis and radiolabeling a library of small molecule PD-L1 ligands as potential PET imaging probes, aiming to find one probe that could penetrate the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and allow for the quantification of PD-L1 in brain tumor or metastasis.
