Federal stem cell ruling blocks Yale scientists
Without funding, labs may have to halt research, lay off scientists
After last week’s ruling preventing federal funding for stem cells research, about a dozen Yale facilities that deal with the cells are at risk of running out of money.
Med School rides grant funding
But deeper cuts loom when influx from stimulus package runs out
Federal stimulus funding has been a boon for the Yale School of Medicine this past year, but now the school must prepare for the day when that extra money is gone.
Applications to Med School hit record high
The Yale School of Medicine received its highest ever number of applications this year, Director of Admissions Richard Silverman said Tuesday.
Despite resources, STI testing rates a concern
Sex at Yale: Part 2 of 5
While Yale students have proven their prowess in final exams and standardized tests, when it comes to testing for sexually transmitted infections, there is still room for improvement.
Yale joins Haiti effort
A team of six physicians and medical professionals from the Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital flew to Haiti Tuesday morning to provide humanitarian aid for up to two weeks.
No more swine flu isolation
Yale University Health Services announced Monday that students who experience flu-like illness no longer have to isolate themselves, and meals will no longer be delivered to these sick students.
Connecticut day cares fall short of state rules
A study led by Yale School of Nursing Professor Angela Crowley has revealed that Connecticut child care centers and family day care homes are not complying with state health and safety regulations.
Pepsi opens New Haven research lab
In New Haven, PepsiCo will fund a graduate fellowship in the M.D.-Ph.D. program at the Yale School of Medicine to support research on nutrition and obesity-related diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes.
1,500 Swine flu vaccines arrive
Sign-ups for swine flu shots fill up within hours; more doses on the way
After weeks of delayed shipments and rationed vaccinations, Yale will inoculate students for swine flu at two clinics Wednesday and Thursday, University Health Services announced Monday.
250 vaccinated for swine flu
The swine flu vaccine is now available for high-risk students, YUHS Director Paul Genecin said in an e-mail to the News Friday.
Yale to revise licensing for medicines in poor countries
Yale joined five other universities Monday in calling for the expanded distribution of medicines in poor countries.
Pre-med requirements could be revised
Prerequisite courses for pre-meds could soon become a thing of the past.
Ads promote H1N1 plan
With the number of swine flu cases rising, New Haven officials are using advertisements to inform the public.
Students won’t get first vaccines
Yale University Health Services received its first shipment of swine flu vaccine last week, but none of these vaccines are for the average student, YUHS director Paul Genecin said Monday.
Smilow boosts research, care
Cancer hospital to complement West Campus research
With the opening of the Smilow Cancer Hospital, director Thomas Lynch ’82 MED ’86 said he hopes Yale-New Haven Hospital will become the Yale Law School of cancer research.
Yale chemist wins Nobel
Professor shares honor with two other scientists for ribosome research
Thomas Steitz, a Sterling professor in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, won the 2009 Nobel prize for Chemistry yesterday.
RNA discovery
In the three decades since RNA was first sequenced in 1975, scientists have been intrigued by how the genome relates to life, studying has been limited to looking at only one gene at a time. Now Erik Sperling GRAD ’11, a graduate student in the Yale Geology and Geophysics Department, and his colleagues have changed that. Staff reporter Rachel Gilmore investigates.
Officials respond to opioid death spike in Conn.
Death from opioid overdose is on the rise in Connecticut — and may soon surpass automobile accidents as the leading cause of accidental death, according to a recent study by Yale researchers.
Robinson links art, literature
Across the street from the Yale University Art Gallery’s “Picasso and the Allure of Language,” an exhibit about Pablo Picasso’s relationship to 20th century literature, a British art historian described the link between 18th and 19th century British art and literature.
Facility to allow greater climate research
Renovation on retired geology and geophysics professor Robert Berner’s lab — which will transform the vacant space into a state-of-the-art facility, the first of its kind — began this week. The new facility will allow Yale scientists to conduct climate research here on campus that previously required them to travel long distances.
School girls try science
Enthusiastic preteen girls descended on Sloane Physics Laboratory on Saturday.
Scientists examine sex changes
While a sex change may entail complicated reconstructive surgery in humans, it takes species like clownfish little effort.
Leaks from the Lab
Eric A. Lazo-Wasem, senior collections manager in the Peabody’s division of invertebrate zoology, recently collected specimens of Eubranchipus holmani, a small species of shrimp that has not been seen in 50 years.