Helping Save Pumas From Inbreeding With Whole Genome Sequencing
The first complete genetic sequences of individual mountain lions point the way to better conservation strategies for saving threatened populations of the wild animals. When…
Howard Hughes Medical Institute News
Incredible Imaging Shows How Neural Circuits Form in a Developing Embryo [Video]
Cells that eventually become neurons (red, orange, and yellow spheres) migrate during embryonic development. The migrating baby neurons that build the spinal cord are color-coded…
Trip to Rainforest Yields Organisms Capable of Degrading Polyurethane
Yale undergraduates participating in Yale’s Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory course had their findings on organisms capable of degrading polyurethane published in the journal Applied and…
Altered Microbes that Cause Obesity & Chronic Liver Disease May be Infectious
Research from scientists at the Yale School of Medicine suggests that obesity and chronic liver disease from altered populations of microbes in the stomach may…
