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ROSE HOROWITCH & MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
South African coronavirus variant detected, UK variant spreading in Connecticut

On Feb. 15, less than a month after the United Kingdom coronavirus variant was detected in Connecticut, Gov. Ned Lamont announced the state’s first COVID-19 […]

February 24, 2021

BEATRIZ HORTA
‘A living icon’: Professors, students remember Chief of Otolaryngology Clarence T. Sasaki MED ’66

Students and fellow professors at the Yale School of Medicine are mourning the death of Chief of Otolaryngology Clarence Sasaki MED ’66, who died on […]

February 22, 2021

SYDNEY GRAY
Efficacy vs. efficiency: Which is the most important when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines?

With the Johnson & Johnson single-dose COVID-19 vaccine pending FDA approval, epidemiologists are considering the effect that it will have on efforts to curb COVID-19 […]

February 22, 2021

SYDNEY GRAY, BEATRIZ HORTA & MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
Yale IMPACT team compiles biorepository of COVID-19 patient samples for study

As the coronavirus first started to spread across the globe last March, Yale experts came together to build a biorepository — or library — of […]

February 19, 2021

MAI CHEN
Yale biomedical engineering graduate student wins PEO Scholar Award

Rebecca Byler GRD ’21, a biomedical engineering graduate student at the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science, received the Philanthropic Educational Organization, or PEO, […]

February 19, 2021

LUCY SUN
Medical school researchers investigate anticoagulation dosage and aspirin as potential COVID-19 treatment

A team of researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have figured out a promising treatment strategy for COVID-19, further elucidating the disease’s pathway and […]

February 17, 2021

STEPHANIE HU
Yale’s Arielle Baskin-Sommers wins psychology awards

Arielle Baskin-Sommers, professor of psychology and psychiatry, has received two awards for her research — the Association for Psychological Science Janet Taylor Spence Award for […]

February 17, 2021

NICOLE RODRIGUEZ
Yale astronomers to benefit from new Sloan Digital Sky Survey data

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the most in-depth three-dimensional astronomical survey ever conducted, is ready to enter its fifth phase, giving Yale astronomers a new […]

February 17, 2021

MARIA FERNANDA PACHECO
New COVID-19 ‘inconclusive’ test result reflects more accurate technology

In an email sent to the Yale community on Tuesday, Yale Health Chief Quality Officer Madeline Wilson announced that there will now be three main […]

February 17, 2021

VERONICA LEE
Yale scientists determine shape of SARS-CoV-2 genome

Yale researchers have figured out how to map the shape of the SARS-CoV-2 — another critical step in the scientific battle against the virus. Researchers […]

February 16, 2021

KAITLIN FLORES
Yale researchers develop nonsurgical treatment for skin cancer

Yale researchers have created a nonsurgical injection that can treat skin cancer. The new treatment, which was published in a paper in the journal Proceedings […]

February 15, 2021