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A doctor’s love affair with medicine and literature

By Guest PostDecember 10, 2015Health, Scienceanna reisman, doctor, literature, love affair, magic mountain, medicine, nu haven kapelye, thomas mann, yale university

For Anna Reisman, M.D., it was a summer novel that pointed her to a career in medicine.

As a rising Yale senior and English major with no thought of becoming a doctor, she read Thomas Mann’s classic 1924 novelThe Magic Mountain, a tale of tuberculosis patients at a Swiss sanatorium. Surprised by her own fascination with the disease, she went on to read physician-writers Oliver Sacks, M.D., Richard Selzer, M.D., HS ’61, and Lewis Thomas, M.D. Soon she was a medical student at New York University. (more…)

A ‘home run’ approach: Yale lab finds new ways to synthesize HIV inhibitor

By Guest PostOctober 27, 2015Healthapproach, cathedral mosque building, ceramic nanofiber, dagestan, derbent, juma mosque, madrasah, mosque in derbent, mr splashy pants, naryn kala citadel, synthesize, yale university

Yale University chemists have created a new process for synthesizing an organic, nitrogen-based compound that inhibits HIV.

The process represents a fundamentally different approach to synthesizing alkaloids, which are naturally occurring compounds that contain nitrogen. The new approach uses a set of starting materials that do not require the usual tempering of nitrogen’s reactive tendencies. (more…)

Best dads on the planet? Let’s start with these little guys

By Guest PostJune 22, 2015Natureallergische reaktion, ausloesende allergen, hunting for treasure, making money online, mira nikolova, situation von allergikern, slavic literature scholar, slavic studies, thomas quarry, yale university

The world’s finest fathers just might be covered with fur and live in the trees of Argentina.

They’re owl monkeys, and a growing body of research indicates that males of the species do much of the nurturing, childrearing, and protecting of offspring. They should be at the top of any Fathers Day list for the animal kingdom, a Yale University biological anthropologist says. (more…)

Drug-resistant lung cancer may have Achilles heel

By Guest PostJune 11, 2015Healthachilles heel, behind the scenes, cast diversity, diversity problem, drug resistant, egfr, epidermal growth factor, lung cancer, michael helfenbein, people of color, receptor, yale university

Drugs introduced more than a decade ago that target mutations in a protein known as the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) held the promise of personalized treatments for a common form of non-small cell lung cancer. But most patients quickly develop resistance to these drugs and are left with few or no treatment options, because it has been very difficult to design new drugs that act selectively upon the drug-resistant form. (more…)

A better grasp of primate grip

By Guest PostMay 8, 2015Scienceaerosolpartikel, australopithecus afarensis, bildung von aerosolen, chronic opioid treatment, electric foot shocks, humans, luftschadstoffe, michel farizon, of, primates, pyridinium ion, tilmann maerk, university of kent, yale university

Scientists are coming to grips with the superior grasping ability of humans and other primates throughout history.

In a new study, a research team led by Yale University found that even the oldest known human ancestors may have had precision grip capabilities comparable to modern humans. This includes Australopithecus afarensis, which appears in the fossil record a million years before the first evidence of stone tools. (more…)

Thick-skinned dinosaur gets the last laugh

By Guest PostSeptember 23, 2014Sciencecanada, david kropaczek, duck-billed dinosaurs, first commercial reactor, hadrosaurs, hell creek formation, michael doster, montana, nuclear energy institute, nuclear industry, seo company, seo professionals, torosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus rex, united states, up front blogger, watts bar, yale university

In life, Tyrannosaurus rex usually got the best of the less fearsome duck-billed dinosaurs, or hadrosaurs: T. rex ate them.

But in death, the plant-eating hadrosaurs have proved more resilient than their carnivorous predators — and apparently all other dinosaurs — at least by the measure of their skin. (more…)

In ancient fish teeth, a tale of ecological resilience

By Guest PostSeptember 7, 2014Scienceamir jina, climate impact lab, cretaceous period, daniel di palma, die off, hertie institut, hidden costs, hurricane irma, james rising, klinische hirnforschung, krankheitsausloeser, online privacy attacks, pacific ocean, prateek mittal, robert kopp, tale, tuebinger neurowissenschaftler, university of california, yale university

Microscopic fish teeth may carry a message of hope from an ecological upheaval in the distant past, scientists at Yale University and the University of California-San Diego (UCSD) have found.

An analysis of tooth fossils and shark scales from the sea floor indicates that a massive die-off of species 66 million years ago did not, in fact, leave uniformly dead oceans around the world. In the Pacific Ocean, at least, some small fish species actually flourished. (more…)

How do you feed a hungry quasar? With a ‘super boost,’ scientists say

By Guest PostAugust 25, 2014Sciencebenoit vermersch, black holes, early universe, energy drink, feed, Israel, juergen bauhus, nadelholz, priyamvada natarajan, quanten oszillator, quantenkommunikation, scientists, weizmann institute, yale university

The universe’s oldest, brightest beacons may have gorged themselves in the dense, cold, gas flows of the early cosmos — creating a kind of energy drink for infant black holes in the young universe — according to new research by scientists at Yale University and the Weizmann Institute in Israel. (more…)

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