This issue of Yale Medicine Magazine highlights the fundamental nature of basic science research. At Yale School of Medicine (YSM), basic scientists are building foundational knowledge across every ...

Basic studies led to clinical and translational advances that no one could have predicted,” Robert Gallo writes of his work ...

Around the world, budgets for fundamental research — studies that seek primarily to advance knowledge for its own sake, without an expectation of a return on investment — are coming under pressure to ...

In creating five new isotopes, an international research team working at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University has brought the stars closer to Earth. These represent ...

A young child arrives at the hospital with a complex array of unexplained symptoms — no clear diagnosis, no obvious path forward. It could be a rare disease with few documented cases, or an atypical ...

On the following pages, you’ll meet just a few of the UAB scientists whose discoveries hold tremendous potential to transform the treatment landscape for a variety of diseases, from kidney disease to ...

High energy density (HED) science seeks to understand and control material at extreme conditions—at temperatures over 20,000°F (approximately 10,000°C, or 10 4 K), pressures millions of times larger ...

In creating five new isotopes, scientists have brought the stars closer to Earth. The isotopes are known as thulium-182, thulium-183, ytterbium-186, ytterbium-187 and lutetium-190. In creating five ...