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Yale alumnus funds new cancer hospital
Since his graduation from Yale College in 1954, Joel E. Smilow has made donations to his alma mater that have endowed a...

After hard times, a student-run journal rides high again as an online publication
When Milton C. Winternitz, M.D., dean of the medical school from 1920 to 1935, conceived of the Yale system of medical...

Yale team implants new prosthetic ankle
The ankle’s position in the hierarchy of artificial joints corresponds roughly to its location at the bottom of the...

Scientists report link between high levels of a protein and severe asthma
Late last year two Yale researchers reported a link between severe asthma and a certain protein, YKL-40, which appeared...
Building the case against a rogue gene
Researchers know that defects in brain development are to blame for autism, but pinpointing the likely genetic culprits...
In the olfactory bulb, new neural stem cells learn to listen before they speak
Like a newborn learning from its parents, a neuron born of neural stem cells in the adult brain must take its cues from...

Public health alumna’s water project reaches its first milestone in Nigerk
Just over a year ago Ariane Kirtley, M.P.H. ’04, described in words and photographs her work in the Azawak, a remote...





