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MADISON MAHONEY
Medical school experiences predict bias against LGBT individuals

Experiences during medical school can systematically shape biases and attitudes against gay and lesbian individuals, according to a study published by researchers from Yale, Oregon […]

September 10, 2019

KYOUNG A LEE
CRISPR study finds new cancer immunotherapy target

A new Yale-led study has discovered a novel gene target for cancer immunotherapy. By using the genome editing system CRISPR to screen for genes, the […]

September 10, 2019

ISHANA AGGARWAL
Researchers detect unreported Zika outbreak in Cuba

Using only data collected from travelers to Cuba, researchers at Yale, Scripps Research Institute and Florida Gulf Coast University detected an outbreak of the Zika […]

September 10, 2019

MATT KRISTOFFERSEN
Shadrack Frimpong SPH ’20 wins Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award

He has met Queen Elizabeth II. He was mentioned on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list. He is even the chief executive officer of his own […]

September 9, 2019

MATT KRISTOFFERSEN
Yale tortoise researcher featured on BBC wildlife channel

Yale researcher Diego Ellis Soto GRD ’24 has dedicated years of his life to protecting the Galapagos giant tortoises, a critically endangered group of species […]

September 3, 2019

MATT KRISTOFFERSEN
What’s in your Juul? More than you think, Yale scientists find

It is a popular conception that e-cigarettes like Juul are as harmless as smoke machines at prom dances, just benign alternatives to toxic, smelly cigarettes. […]

September 3, 2019

XIAOYING ZHENG & KYOUNG A LEE
Study finds method for controlling tics in Tourette’s syndrome patients

Contributing Reporter and staff reporter A new Yale study successfully trained a group of adolescents with Tourette’s syndrome to control their tics using functional magnetic […]

September 3, 2019

JESSICA PEVNER
Yale study quantifies effect of eviction on poverty

In 2017, Princeton professor and sociologist Matthew Desmond won a Pulitzer Prize for his book “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.” The book […]

September 3, 2019

ISHANA AGGARWAL
Study sheds light on HIV protein mechanisms

In a joint study by researchers at Yale, the University of Delaware and Northwestern University, scientists engineered assemblies of capsids — the protein shell of […]

September 3, 2019

MARISA PERYER
YNHH resident arrested; illegal narcotic distribution suspected

A recent FBI investigation resulted in the July 31 arrest of former Yale New Haven Hospital resident Jennifer Farrell. She is charged with 35 counts […]

August 14, 2019

MARISA PERYER
For years, Yale’s Astro Department has conducted research on Native Hawaiian cultural site

On Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano, hundreds of Native Hawaiian activists, scholars and scientists are resisting the construction of a new, massive telescope that may soon […]

July 27, 2019