New Combo Technique Improves Detection of Diseases at Birth
The combination of a new sequencing technique and machine learning can speed up the diagnosis of diseases in newborns and reduce false-positive results, Yale researchers…
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Newly Developed “Variable Friction” Fingers Enable Better Robot Hands
Picking up a pen off a desk and writing with it might seem easy to you, but it’s no small feat to a robot. For…
Researchers Demonstrate “Teleportation” of a Quantum Gate
Yale University researchers have demonstrated one of the key steps in building the architecture for modular quantum computers: the “teleportation” of a quantum gate between…
Intrinsic Pink-Noise Provides Better View of Climate Change
A new study says pink noise may be the key to separating out natural climate variability from climate change that is influenced by human activity….
Warmer Water Now Reaches Deep Into The Arctic Interior
Arctic sea ice isn’t just threatened by the melting of ice around its edges, a new study has found: Warmer water that originated hundreds of…
New Imaging Technique Captures Detailed Information About Metabolism
Yale researchers have developed a new imaging technique that captures detailed information about metabolism, which plays a role in many diseases. The novel yet simple…
Researchers Explain Why Certain People Possess Amazing Memory Abilities
How do house hunters who visit 20 homes daily still recall details of the master bedroom of a specific one? Our memories can perform this…
Study Shows A Depressed Spouse Increases One’s Own Cognitive Decline
Researchers at Yale School of Public Health and their scientific partners have found that having a depressed spouse can increase one’s own depressive symptoms as…
CRISPR’s Potential and Dangers: Is CRISPR Worth the Risk?
The gene editing technology CRISPR has prompted both breathless predictions of medical breakthroughs and warnings of apocalypse. Yale Insights asked Dr. Greg Licholai, a biotech…
Physicists Reveal New Principle Of Fighting Laser Chaos With Wave-Dynamical Chaos
An international, Yale-led research team has taken a new approach to stabilizing high-power lasers: They’re fighting chaos with chaos. There has been a rapidly growing…
New HIV Therapy Boosts Immunity and Reduces Viral Replication
In a study, a new HIV drug reduced viral replication and increased immune cells in individuals with advanced, drug-resistant HIV infection. Used in combination with…
Scientists Uncover Key Element to How Glasses Transition Into Resilient States
Addressing a centuries-old question, researchers have uncovered a key element to how glasses transition into very resilient states. This breakthrough could allow for more reliable…
Paleontologists Discover a New Species of Lobopodian
Yale paleontologist Derek Briggs was part of a research team that identified Thanahita distos, a new species of lobopodian, an ancient relative of modern-day onychophorans,…
Scientists Create a Mouse That Eats Fat But Doesn’t Get Fat, Possible Treatment for Obesity
Yale scientists set out to create a morbidly obese mouse. They failed miserably. What they found was much more interesting. “We created a mouse that…
VPS13 Proteins Role in Neurological Disorders, Including Parkinson’s
Several gene mutations have been linked to Parkinson’s disease, but exactly how and where some of them cause their damage has been unclear. A new…
Scientists Provide Evidence for Why Earth’s Early Climate Was More Stable and Warmer
Yale researchers have provided a new explanation for why Earth’s early climate was more stable and warmer than it is today. When life first evolved…
Scientists Discover Surprise Link Between Metabolism and Immunity
In the search for obesity treatments, scientists recently zeroed in on a gene known as Nucleobindin-2 (Nucb2), which was believed to play a role in…
Group of Animals Fundamentally Changed Global Ecology and Environments
On an ancient seafloor, burrowing animals appeared and churned up sediment as a sort of opening act for the Cambrian explosion, the rapid emergence and…