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  • Heat stroke? Try cold stroke

    I get pretty tired of those local news stories about how we should be afraid of the weather here in the temperate zone. Killer cold! Killer heat!... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | February 12 2014 05:23pm

  • YODA knows: J&J gives drug info to Yale Open Data Access

    In a "stunning win for open science," Yale has struck a deal to acquire all of Johnson & Johnson's clinical drug trial results, and to make them... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | January 30 2014 10:47am

  • Us vs. them: as simple as ABC?

    If you, like me, are discouraged by our human instinct to focus on superficial differences rather than fundamental similarities, a new psychology... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | January 28 2014 10:40am

  • Of mice, men, microbes—and women on the podium

    How can science organizations get more women to speak at their conventions? Two scientists put their own group under the microscope and came up with a... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | January 15 2014 12:14pm

  • Surgeon general's warning saved 8 million lives, study says

    Fifty years ago this Sunday, Americans picked up their newspapers and read about the results of a long-awaited, much-publicized report from the US... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 8 2014 06:27am

  • Welcome to the doghouse

    It was surely the canine social event of the season. Eli, the Yale Police Department's bomb-sniffing labrador retriever, was there, as was Remy, a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 9 2013 10:58am

  • Is there an MBA in the house?

    With his signature Affordable Healthcare Act facing both assaults from the right and self-inflicted wounds, President Obama just called in a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 15 2013 09:46am

  • Chinese astronomer caught in crossfire of political star wars

    Yale astronomer Ji Wang will be going to a NASA conference next week after all. But thanks to a snafu in which the space agency banned and then unbanned... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | October 30 2013 11:04am

  • Bio building: it's a living thing

    On the same day that a Yale School of Medicine biologist won a Nobel Prize, the university's department of molecular, cellular, and developmental... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | October 8 2013 12:58pm

  • YODA's the name; open science is the game

    In a striking experiment in research transparency, a Yale-managed project has used a medical company's own clinical data to rebut its previous claims about a... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | June 19 2013 07:40am

  • Looking through a glass organ

    In the photo they look like odd-shaped bottles, perhaps hanging in an old-fashioned farmhouse kitchen. In real life, the green glass objects are... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | June 18 2013 10:49am

  • Immunologist Medzhitov wins$5.1 million science prize

    Ruslan Medzhitov is making a habit out of winning new science prizes. A German foundation announced today that its inaugural Else... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | June 5 2013 09:21am

  • New melanoma drug stirs excitement

    The test results are early—and sponsored by the drug manufacturer—but scientists and journalists alike are excited about the prospects of... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | June 4 2013 12:49pm

  • A wrinkle, perhaps in time to predict autism

    The placenta is the Rodney Dangerfield of medical research: it don't get no respect. "Wanting to study it," the New York Times says of Yale School of... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | May 2 2013 10:54am

  • The 17-year itch

    "I counted 10 cicada larvae in a 4x6 foot patch of garden,” a friend posted on Facebook the other day. Comments ranged from... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | May 1 2013 07:59am

  • Melanoma survivors keep tanning

    Melanoma, the skin cancer that kills a person every hour in the United States, is not enough to keep some survivors out of the sun—or the... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | April 10 2013 07:43am

  • NBC newsman Bazell to join Yale biology faculty

    After nearly 40 years in TV news, Robert Bazell is leaving NBC to join the Yale faculty. Bazell, the chief science and health correspondent for NBC... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, 97MSL | March 25 2013 07:57am

  • Yale docs: 'just say no' to brain-boosting drugs for healthy kids

    If you wouldn't prescribe steroids or human growth hormone to improve healthy kids' athletic performance, don't give them brain drugs to boost their... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | March 20 2013 08:45am

  • Pharma freebies at med school: what's the Rx?

    A decade ago, medical students were raking in the pharma swag—receiving gifts or attending industry-sponsored events once a week, on average. Then... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | March 1 2013 08:42am