News

Magnetic resonance system will open new scientific vistas
The School of Medicine has been awarded a $2 million grant from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) for the purchase of a powerful new 7 Tesla (7T) magnetic resonance system. The 7T system, one of only...
A robot arrives in the operating room
Operating room nurse Elizabeth Lasorso, R.N., did a double take when she walked into the operating room in late August and saw four robotic arms looming over a patient undergoing a radical prostatectomy. “I saw those...

State makes first stem-cell grants to Yale
Yale fared well in the first group of grants awarded in November by the state of Connecticut from a $100 million fund established last year to promote stem cell research. Yale scientists received $7.7 million of the...
Advances
If the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) did battle against the parasitic hookworm Ancylostoma...
Read more...Stem cells make identical copies of themselves and can differentiate into many of the myriad cell...
Read more...Some individuals persevere in hardship; others crumple like paper dolls. Mental fortitude in the...
Read more...Neutrophils, critical cells of the early immune response, travel quickly through the bloodstream to...
Read more...

