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Can microRNAs put the brakes on cancer?
The complete sequence of the human genome, with its promise of new insights into disease and a host of novel drug targets, was announced to great fanfare in 2003. But a quieter genetic revolution began a full decade earlier, when Dartmouth College scientists studying...
Student-run clinic is a HAVEN for uninsured
When it comes to health care, New HAVEN’s Fair HAVEN neighborhood has more than its share of the underserved and uninsured. Thanks to a new free medical clinic launched by students from the School of Medicine, the...
The power of Botox, a drug with many faces
For those of us who first learned of Botox from the frothy pages of People and Entertainment Weekly, it might come as a surprise that a drug that rose to fame in the 1990s as wrinkle-eraser to the stars now makes...
Yale innovation in the art of observation extends its reach
You might expect a seen-it-all New Haven police detective to be skeptical about the professional benefits of looking at Victorian paintings. But when Lt. Herman Badger recently tried an exercise that hones observation...
Gift honors Nobelist, sponsors visits by top neuroscientists
A lecture series established with a gift from the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Fund for the Arts and Sciences will bring a leading neuroscientist to the School of Medicine each year to speak and to exchange ideas with...
Advances
Bullies are no match for gene knockout
After repeated harassment by larger, more aggressive members of their species, mice withdraw from...
Read more...Parasite’s accomplice gets genetic mug
As many as 500,000 people per year in sub-Saharan Africa contract sleeping sickness, which can...
Read more...Along for the ride when cells divide
When a daughter leaves home, she packs her bags with provisions she’ll need to strike out on her...
Read more...Are skin cells guards or go-betweens?
Accounting for 15 percent of our body weight, and with an average surface area of 20 square feet,...
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