Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
Yale scientists use light energy to drive nanomachines A team of researchers at the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science have shown that the force of light can be used to power machines that operate at the nanoscale. (A nanometer is one billionth of a meter.) “While the force of light is far too weak for us to feel in everyday life,” lead researcher Hong...
Yale scientists began work Wednesday on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest and most expensive international particle physics experiment to be undertaken to date. The Yale team, which will work on ATLAS, one of the six LHC experiments, will join nearly 7,000 scientists from 80 other countries that are expected to experiment with the LHC in the years to come...
Short-term memory may be even more important than we thought. While intelligence plays a crucial role in the ability to gauge short- and long-term benefits and resist temptations, scientists have, until recently, been unsure of why this connection between intellect and self-control exists. But a study released Tuesday by Yale assistant professor of psychology Jeremy Gray...
Yale University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, one of eight HIV research centers in the country, announced yesterday it will receive a grant of $11 million from the National Institute of Mental Health, which will help fund another five years of HIV/AIDS research and health-care projects. The aid will allow the Center to continue to support...
Tiny pieces of RNA were recently discovered by Yale University scientists to play a crucial role in angiogenesis — the formation of blood vessels which is vital for everything from heart disease to the spread of cancer. The research could lead to improved methods for diagnosing cancer, macular degeneration and stroke.
The adage “no pain, no gain” may have some truth to it after all. Mothers who give birth vaginally show significantly greater brain activity in response to their baby’s cry than mothers who have chosen a Cesarean section, new research conducted by a group of researchers at the Yale Child Study Center suggests. The group, led by Child Study Center assistant...
In the junkyard of the human genome, Yale scientists have identified a few pieces of DNA that are more than just scrap metal. Assistant professor of genetics James Noonan and a team of other geneticists recently found a sequence of genes among what was traditionally considered to be “junk DNA” that may have contributed to unique aspects of human-limb development —...
WEST HAVEN, Conn. — Ten years ago, University President Richard Levin laid out his goals for advancing Yale over the next decade. Investing in the sciences was among them — and the gleaming new Daniel L. Malone Engineering Center and the Class of ’54 Chemistry Research Building are proof of that. But on an urban campus, new laboratories can only be built so...
WEST HAVEN, Conn. — Next to the West Campus’ gleaming, brick-and-steel laboratory buildings lies an unadorned warehouse, clad in metal paneling and weathered from many a New England winter. To Yale’s scientists, those gleaming, state-of-the-art research buildings seem like the complex’s biggest prize. But art aficionados may argue otherwise. To them, that...
Kenneth Kidd, professor of genetics, psychiatry and ecology and evolutionary biology, chuckles softly as he explains that the “Asian flush” is actually rooted in science. “We all have East Asian friends who turn bright red with alcohol,” Kidd said. The reason for this “flushing reaction,” he explained, is that many Asians carry variants of genes regulating...
Not all breast cancers are created equal. New genetics research by Olufunmilayo Olopade, a professor in the Department of Medicine and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, suggests that the type and severity of breast cancer are largely dependent on patients’ ethnicity. Olopade determined that genes belonging to African-American women often have mutations...
Even as scientists across the country struggle to work around federal restrictions on stem cell research, Yale researchers will now enjoy the benefits of almost $6 million in grants. Twelve Yale stem cell research projects received grants totaling $5.6 million from the Connecticut Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee on Tuesday. The money was distributed as part of...
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