Maria Fernanda Pacheco
Staff Reporter
Maria Fernanda Pacheco is a staff reporter for the Science & Technology desk of the Yale Daily News. Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she is a sophomore in Grace Hopper College majoring in Neuroscience and participating in the Global Health Studies program.
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Coronavirus could invade the brain, two Yale studies suggest

Yale researchers found that the coronavirus can directly infect brain cells, potentially eliciting neurological symptoms — such as the loss of taste or smell — […]

Common cold may protect against the flu, Yale study finds

Yale researchers found that contracting the common cold could help protect against later infection with the flu. In the midst of one of history’s largest […]

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awards Yale researchers with grants to study neurodegeneration

Three Yale researchers have been awarded grants by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, or CZI, to research neurodegenerative diseases — disorders characterized by the molecular unraveling […]

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Yale study explores sex differences in COVID-19 patient outcomes

Biological sex has been found to underlie stark differences in COVID-19 patient outcomes, with men comprising approximately 60 percent of COVID-19-related deaths around the world […]

Yale launches free coronavirus screening program

As the University finalizes its plans for the fall, Yale has launched a coronavirus screening program to offer free viral testing for all students, faculty […]

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Undeterred by pandemic, YNHH team performs Connecticut’s first fetal surgery to correct spina bifida

Only days before the COVID-19 pandemic came crashing down on the American health care system, specialists at Yale New Haven Hospital performed Connecticut’s first fetal […]

Undergraduates explore partial automation of ventilators in class project

None of the students who enrolled in “Mechatronics Laboratory” could have anticipated that they would end the term tasked with searching for solutions for a […]

Happiness in the time of COVID-19: Santos’s “The Science of Well-being” gains over a million new subscribers

As nations navigate a pandemic of unprecedented proportions, people across the globe have retreated into their homes to flatten the curve of COVID-19 spread. During […]

Jackson experts discuss health, politics and economics in an uncertain world

Experts from the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs convened in an open Zoom webinar last Friday to discuss global health, politics and economics during […]

Ressa talks disinformation at Jackson talk

Faced with 11 charges imposed by Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte’s government, Maria Ressa, the former CNN journalist, had to post bail eight times to be […]

PROFILE: Dr. Mary Jane Minkin, ‘Madame Ovary’

With an impeccable French accent, professor Mary Minkin MED ’75, a physician who has taught at the School of Medicine for over 37 years, declared, […]