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Yale Advances in Treating Primary Brain Cancers Benefit Patients and Science
Advances made in Yale labs and developed into successful treatments are the result of cross-disciplinary collaborations across schools at Yale.
11 Feb 2025
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A longstanding commitment to basic science
A conviction about in the practical utility of basic science guided Joan Steitz’s research into RNA, and she never doubted that research would someday benefit humanity.
22 Aug 2022
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Yale’s Baserga named to National Academy of Inventors
Susan Baserga, professor of molecular biophysics & biochemistry, genetics, and therapeutic radiology at Yale University and Yale School of Medicine, has been elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
10 Dec 2018
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Joan Steitz, PhD, receives a 2018 Lasker Award
Joan A. Steitz, PhD, is the recipient of the 2018 Lasker~Koshland Award, one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive.
11 Sep 2018
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Four Faculty Members Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
In recognition of their outstanding research achievements, four faculty members from the School of Medicine have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Akiko Iwasaki, PhD; Haifan Lin, PhD; David G. Schatz, PhD; and Günter Paul Wagner, PhD, were selected for one of the world’s highest honors that can be bestowed on a scientist.
4 May 2018
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11 from Yale elected to Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering has elected 24 of the state’s leading experts in science, engineering, and technology to membership in the academy, including 11 new members from Yale.
15 Feb 2017
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Yale team sheds light on century-old biochemical mystery
Given plenty of glucose and oxygen, yeast and cancer cells do not burn it all to produce energy but convert much of it to the byproducts ethanol and lactate, respectively.
17 Aug 2015
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A disease deflector
The outside world teems with microscopic objects. Many of these busy microbes invade the human body.
6 Jan 2020
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The Shapers of Cells Get Help From a Surprising Source
A group of Yale researchers found that the kinase Abl2 regulates the growth of microtubules without using proteins.
7 Nov 2019
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Overcoming infertility
For older parents or parents struggling with certain medical conditions who want to have children, fertility treatment is a modern technological miracle. Doctors at Yale School of Medicine provide an array of services, while leading research with exciting clinical applications.
24 Sep 2019
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Parkinson’s function uncovered in genes
The function of a gene family associated with Parkinson’s and other inherited diseases has been elucidated by Yale scientists. Mutations in human VPS13 genes were known to cause neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases, but the mechanisms were unknown.
2 Apr 2019
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Labs visualize cell “skeleton” structure
The protein filamin and its close relatives help assemble filaments of the protein actin into a kind of cellular skeleton. A number of genetic diseases result from defects in this cytoskeleton.
2 Apr 2019
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Single Gene Linked to a Host of Abnormalities During Neurodevelopment
Yale researchers have shown that mutations of a gene associated with autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and epilepsy cause some of the same structural and behavioral abnormalities that characterize those neurodevelopmental disorders, they report March 5 in the journal Cell Reports.
4 Mar 2019
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In the Developing Brain, Scientists Find Roots of Neuropsychiatric Diseases
The most comprehensive genomic analysis of the human brain ever undertaken has revealed new insights into the changes it undergoes through development, how it varies among individuals, and the roots of neuropsychiatric illnesses such as autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia.
16 Dec 2018
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Lasker Award to Joan A. Steitz honors decades of achievements
Joan A. Steitz, PhD, has received the 2018 Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science, one of the highest forms of recognition that a scientist can receive.
20 Nov 2018
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Thomas Steitz, Nobel Laureate for ribosome discoveries, dies at 78
Thomas A. Steitz, PhD, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale and one of three winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, died Oct.
20 Nov 2018
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The immune system & acts of kindness
David G. Schatz, PhD, chair of Yale School of Medicine’s immunobiology department, can explain mind-bendingly complex processes of the human body’s immune system in relatable terms.
31 Oct 2018
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Nobel Laureate Thomas A. Steitz Dies, Mapped the Structure of the Ribosome
Thomas A. Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale and one of three winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, died Oct. 9 at his home in Stony Creek after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Steitz was 78.
11 Oct 2018
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Four from medical school elected to National Academy of Sciences
In recognition of their outstanding research achievements, four School of Medicine faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Akiko Iwasaki, PhD; Haifan Lin, PhD; David G.
27 Jun 2018
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Taming an unruly target in diabetes
Focusing on a simple hormone in us all, a Yale researcher has found specific forms of it that poke toxic holes in cells — a discovery that he is leveraging into a treatment for patients with diabetes.
3 Apr 2018