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SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Nov. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, FindTheBest, an unbiased, data-driven comparison engine, announces the release of its 'Best of' badges in the Education category, highlighting the top Smart Rated colleges and universities--from business schools and law schools to medical schools--across the country. FindTheBest's Smart Rating allows users to view a single meta rating that reflects both a weighted compilation of scores from expert sources and an unbiased score...
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Yale Global Health Leadership Institute announces a new partnership with Management Science for Health, as part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Leadership, Management and Governance Project. This five-year project will support health systems strengthening in developing countries around the world. "Investment in leadership and management are critical in helping our own and other countries...
Evolution adds and subtracts, and nowhere is this math more evident than in vertebrates, which are programmed to have five digits on each limb. But many species do not. Snakes, of course, have no digits, and birds have three. Yale scientists now have a good handle on how these developmental changes are orchestrated in the embryo, but there is still one outstanding debate on birds: Which digits are they: a thumb with index and middle fingers, or the index, middle and ring fingers? In...
Yale University researchers have successfully re-engineered the protein-making machinery in bacteria, a technical tour de force that promises to revolutionize the study and treatment of a variety of diseases. "Essentially, we have expanded the genetic code of E. coli, which allows us synthesize special forms of proteins that can mimic natural or disease states," said Jesse Rinehart of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and co-corresponding author of the research published...
Results of the largest genomics study of multiple sclerosis patients ever undertaken have identified more than two dozen new genetic variants linked to disease risk, including some previously implicated in other autoimmune diseases.The study, conducted by an international consortium of researchers from the Yale School of Medicine and 129 other institutions, appears in the Aug. 11 issue of the journal Nature. Common genetic links between multiple autoimmune diseases were also confirmed in a...
Yale University researchers can't tell you where you left your car keys- but they can tell you why you can't find them.A new study published July 27 in the journal Nature shows the neural networks in the brains of the middle-aged and elderly have weaker connections and fire less robustly than in youthful ones, Intriguingly, the research suggests that this condition is reversible."Age-related cognitive deficits can have a serious impact on our lives in the Information Age as people often...
Team of scientists uncovers new informationBy Judy Holmes, Syracuse UniversityThe question seems simple enough: What happens to the Earth's temperature when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increase? The answer is elusive. However, clues are hidden in the fossil record. A new study by researchers from Syracuse and Yale universities provides a much clearer picture of the Earth's temperature approximately 50 million years ago when CO2 concentrations were higher than today. The results may shed...
In one of the first studies to examine the reasons for the rising number of women delivering their babies by cesarean section, Yale School of Medicine researchers found that while half of the increase was attributable to a rise in repeat cesarean delivery in women with a prior cesarean birth, an equal proportion was due to a rise in first time cesarean delivery. Among these deliveries, factors such as slowly progressing labor and fetal heart rate concerns were the largest contributors.The...
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Yale researchers have discovered that hundreds of small genetic variations are associated with autism spectrum disorders. This new research supports the theory that autism is not caused by one or two major genetic defects but rather by many small variations.Investigators looked at more than 1,000 families that had a single child with autism, an unaffected sibling and unaffected parents. They compared individuals with autism to their siblings to determine the genetic...
New research in the FASEB Journal provides scientific basis for the first clinical trial of engineered vascular grafts in childrenIf pending clinical trials prove successful, a new discovery published in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) could represent a major scientific leap toward human tissue regeneration and engineering. In a research report appearing online, Yale scientists provide evidence to support a major paradigm shift in this specialty area from the idea that cells added...
