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A mouse offers a new way to test vaccines
The laboratory mouse—resilient, easy to breed and ideally suited to the genetic manipulations that form the basis of...

Marna Borgstrom named to lead Yale-New Haven Hospital and Health System
Since she joined Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) as a junior adminstrator in 1979, Marna P. Borgstrom, M.P.H. ’79, has...
Researchers discover odor receptor genes in fruit flies
In a finding with profound implications for controlling insect pests that spread disease and cause crop blights,...

Biomarkers warn of a “silent killer”
Epithelial ovarian cancer ranks as the most lethal of gynecological malignancies. It is only 10 percent as common as...

With the Canary Database, animals become sentinels for environmental hazards
Before the effects of mercury poisoning showed up in the children of Minamata, Japan, in the 1950s, cats were getting...
A moth’s gene helps discern gene functions
A new tool for genome research, developed in the Yale laboratory of Tian Xu, Ph.D. ’90, professor and vice chair of...

Using lasers to determine cell function
Through genetic tweaking, researchers at the School of Medicine have made fruit flies walk, jump and fly on command—by...




