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In this video series, meet some of the people — scientists, staff, and patients — whose lives and work reflect the import and impact of Yale’s research across America.
Yale researchers have created a new RNA editing tool that can take some of the risk out of gene therapy.
An estimated two in five people who are incarcerated have a history of mental illness, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Most receive no treatment for their mental health issues ...
In a new book, Yale’s David Engerman examines six economists, all from South Asia, who helped shape international development — including efforts to reduce poverty and inequality worldwide.
Marlene Schwartz Nearly half of the people responding to an online survey about obesity said they would give up a year of their life rather than be fat, according to a study by the Rudd Center for ...
Salovey enters his final academic year as Yale’s 23rd president after a decade of fostering unity, innovation, accessibility, and excellence.
Yale conservators and conservation scientists have found that the map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink.
Machu Picchu, the famous 15th-century Inca site in southern Peru, is up to several decades older than previously thought, according to a new study led by Yale archaeologist Richard Burger. Burger and ...
Yale and New Haven announce a six-year commitment to increase the university’s voluntary financial contributions to the city and promote inclusive growth.
Yale University has announced that a historic philanthropic gift will launch an ambitious new research enterprise devoted to the study of human cognition.
Using a new technology known as optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), a team of Belgian scientists and Professor John Coleman Darnell of Yale have determined that Egyptian petroglyphs found at the ...
In a new study, Yale researchers examine an “epigenetic clock” to show how chronic stress — or the lack of it — affects the speed of the aging process.