Fiber Optic Probe Measures Carotenoids in the Skin
New technology that measures a biomarker by simply bouncing blue laser light off the skin provides fast, painless, and highly accurate results. Based on resonance…
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A Potential Therapeutic Target for Treating Pulmonary Fibrosis
By uncovering the signaling pathway that promotes cell migration in certain forms of pulmonary fibrosis and by developing a drug treatment that may block the…
Yale Neurologists Discover the Source of Diabetic Neuropathy Pain
Yale researchers have identified the source of neuropathic pain that many diabetics suffer from and believe they may be able to target it. While working…
Evolutionary Changes Surrounding the NOS1 Gene
A new study from neurobiologists at Yale University examines the evolutionary changes surrounding the NOS1 gene and suggests that the same evolutionary mechanisms that may…
“Map of Life” to Illustrate All Living Things Geographically
Now open to the public, a demonstration version of the “Map of Life” is set to illustrate how all living things on the planet are…
Survival Rates for Mitral Valve Surgery Patients Improve
A new report shows that patients with mitral regurgitation are living longer after having surgery that replaces or repairs the mitral valve. A study analyzed…
Automated System Has Promising Uses in Battery and Fuel Cell Production
Newly published research from Yale University engineers describes a technique that may be influential in developing and understanding new methods for rapidly creating battery electrodes…
Inexpensive Strategies Linked to Lowering Heart Attack Mortality Rates
Examining the substantial variations in mortality rates from heart attack patients in hospitals across the United States led Yale researchers to find relatively inexpensive strategies…
“Random Lasers” Reduce Noise and Improve Medical Imaging
Physicists from Yale University have engineered a “random laser” which they believe will improve both processing time and the clarity of the images from devices…
Anthropologists Seek to Protect Chimpanzees of the Ugandan Jungle
This fifteen-minute video shows how the presence of a Yale anthropologist and his colleagues from the University of Michigan help keep chimpanzees safe from the…
Immune System May Trigger Melanoma Growth
Findings suggest that our own immune system may be working against us when it comes to protection from skin cancer. The scientists found that in…
Human Presence Increases Indoor Bacteria
Bacteria are everywhere and in much larger amounts than you may realize. A new study looks at how much a lone human presence affects the…
Obese Children with Genetic Variants Susceptible to Fatty Liver Disease
While conducting a study on liver disease in children, researchers from the Yale School of Medicine found that a common genetic variant was associated with…
7 Million Year Old Footprints Reveal Elephant Social Structure from the Past
Although elephants vanished from the United Arab Emirates a long time ago, it appears that footprints made roughly seven million years ago in the Arabian…
Targeting Phosphorus Atoms for 3D MRI Images
By targeting phosphorus atoms and applying a complicated sequence of radio wave pulses, researchers were able to create an MRI technique that displays 3D images…
Experimental Evidence that Fetal Exposure to Cell Phones Affects Behavior
By exposing pregnant mice to radiation from a cell phone, a new study provides the first experimental evidence that fetal exposure to radiofrequency radiation from…
Ticks, Lyme Disease and Public Health
Durand Fish, a professor in the Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health, discusses ticks and the associated health…
Researchers Conclude Torosaurus and Triceratops Are Different Species of Horned Dinosaurs
After a detailed structural analysis of 35 Torosaurus and Triceratops skulls, researchers at Yale University have determined that Torosaurus and Triceratops are different species, but…
