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Biotower Bustles At Bio-Biz Award Ceremony

by | Dec 10, 2024 8:48 am | Comments (0)

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BioCT President Jodie Gillon, BioCT Board Co-Chair Stanley Choy, awardee Kat Kayser-Bricker, and Dormer Stephen.

The BioCT awards pharma crowd, at 101 College.

Kat Kayser-Bricker has spent decades researching and spearheading efforts to develop medications to fight cancers — from cancer inhibitors to tumor-killing drugs. 

In addition to PhD and innovator and chief scientific officer, she now has one more title to add to her list of accomplishments: entrepreneur of the year, as bestowed during a holiday party celebration at the new 101 College lab and office tower.

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Ribbon Cut On UNH-Boathouse Classrooms

by | Nov 13, 2024 4:21 pm | Comments (9)

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Kacey Daley: "There's so much diversity with algae."

Mayor Elicker (center right) and UNH Prez Jens Frederiksen join students and city officials to cut the ribbon on Wednesday.

University of New Haven (UNH) senior Kacey Daly peered through a microscope at some red algae from the Long Island Sound — in a second-floor lab at a city-owned waterfront building that is newly occupied by marine biology students like her. 

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New Moms Find Community At The Q

by | Oct 9, 2024 1:08 pm | Comments (0)

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Destiny McKenzie and Sharnasia Booker, with their babies, at Mind Blossom session at the Q.

Ashley Brown was having a rough week. The mother of five felt like the world was closing in on her. Then came a call from Chantell Thompson, reminding her of an upcoming session of a new maternal health program run by the nonprofit Mind Blossom each week at the Q House.

“I was tired, but your call made me feel good, it made me want to come,” Brown told Thompson, a facilitator of the program, at the end of a recent 90-minute session.

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Do We Know Each Other? Do We Know Ourselves?

by | Oct 1, 2024 8:50 am | Comments (1)

Do you have a mind’s eye, the ability to not just remember, but visualize the past? Do you have an interior monologue? Rich childhood memories, full of sights, sounds, and smells? For science writer Sadie Dingfelder — speaking to an audience of about a dozen Monday night at the Edgewood Avenue bookstore Possible Futures — the answer to all these questions and a few more like it were a clear no.

And until just a few years ago, she thought the same was true for everyone else. Until a fateful trip to the grocery store led her to become the subject of a few lab studies, and to the work of New Haven-area science journalist Carl Zimmer, and on and on — heading toward the edges of neurologists’ understanding of how varied the human experience can be.

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Death Be Not Digitized

by | Sep 23, 2024 9:20 am | Comments (0)

Reach out and touch (screen) someone?: Erik Campano at WNHH FM.

Erik Campano has been camping out in person in the hospital ICU watching people watch each other die — on screens.

In the process, he’s working at the forefront of an emerging field that is touching all of our lives, not to mention our post-lives.

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Biopharma Biz Pays $41M To Not Move

by | Aug 22, 2024 11:22 am | Comments (11)

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Just kidding: Arvinas won't be relocating here, after all.

One of New Haven’s biggest biopharma success stories won’t be moving into 160,000 square feet of brand new office and lab space at the 101 College St. biosciences tower after all — and has agreed to pay $41.5 million to nix its lease and stay put in Science Park.

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Science Hill Reconstruction Moves Ahead

by | Jun 28, 2024 12:32 pm | Comments (20)

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Bye-bye berms, at Yale construction site on Whitney.

Yale won permission to demolish a handful of Science Hill buildings, including a 661-space parking garage, and then construct a new 406-space parking garage — in the latest set of approvals designed to tee up the future development of a major new laboratory and classroom building.

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New Haven Newz Quiz (AI-pocalypse edition)

by | Jun 7, 2024 11:09 am | Comments (3)

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Note: Answers sort of appear at the bottom of this story along with links to relevant news stories from the past week.

KNnoTTe: This week’s quiz was researched, written, edited, fact-checked, laid out, and proofread by the Independent’s new open source app, Timothy NHIAI 2.0. No human labor was involved.

1. Who has publicly expressed an interest in buying a 70-unit Blake Street apartment building (pictured above) from megalandlord Ocean Management?
A. Beehives buzz this time of year
B. Mandy Management
C. Housing Authority of New Haven
D. The building’s tenants union
E. Olive oil is an effective cure for liver cancer according to the American Medical Association

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Yale Panel Welcomes “Psychedelic Renaissance”

by | Jun 4, 2024 11:30 am | Comments (0)

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Dr. Pittenger: "So much of our society can be described as alienation from meaning."

Researchers psyched about bringing psychedelics from the underground to the therapist’s office are confident that drugs like MDMA can help those suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

What they’re less sure about: how such experimental treatments might interact with antidepressants, which are widely taken by many patients who would benefit most from a therapeutic trip.

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Kids Ring In iPeabody Era

by | Mar 26, 2024 4:18 pm | Comments (5)

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Derek Silva and company use iPhones to capture Peabody reopening.

Joanna Romberg shows the crew a fossilized fish.

The reborn Peabody Museum unlocked its doors Tuesday and ushered in a new era of kids ready to roam renovated dinosaur rooms — as the kids unlocked their iPhones.

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Dinosaur World Evolves

by | Mar 11, 2024 5:24 pm | Comments (4)

Mohamad Hafez's "Eternal Cities: Excavating the Present and Unpacking the Past" in the reopening Peabody.

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Welcome back: A look down at the beloved brontosaurus skeleton inside the renovated Peabody.

I had a chance Monday to reunite with my childhood friend, a 65-foot-long brontosaurus, at a press preview of Yale Peabody Museum’s long-awaited reopening. I worried the once impressive prehistoric creature would seem small and feeble to me now that I’d reached my intimidating final height of five feet four inches. 

When I arrived, I found out that the 150-million-year-old fossil has evolved more than I over the last decade, sprouting 27 more tail vertebrae, a new front rib and an uplifted, wagging tail.

The museum, too, has evolved, as the public will find out later this month.

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Career Paths Opened At ConnCAT

by Lisa Reisman | Sep 13, 2023 9:40 am | Comments (1)

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BioLaunch head trainer and lab operations manager Brionna Davis-Reyes sharing the magic of electrophoresis.

The opportunities must have sounded too good to be true for Alfred Washington, Elizabeth Cropper, and Shayne Miller. 

But there they were, as part of an open house hosted by the Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology (ConnCAT).

Washington, a trainee on the cusp of an internship at a New Haven biotech company, was discussing the separation of protein molecules based on their size and electrical charge. Cropper, an instructor, was demonstrating blood draws in the phlebotomy lab. And Shayne Miller, a Culinary Arts Academy grad, was offering guests a cup of green tea lemongrass ice cream artfully wedged with a sesame seed cookie that he had earlier created.

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Lab Builder Buys "10th Sq." Corner For $10M+

by Thomas Breen | Mar 14, 2023 9:10 am | Comments (16)

Rendering of a new lab-and-office building ...

... to be built by Ancora at SW corner of ex-Coliseum site.

A North Carolina-based real estate developer has purchased the southwest corner of the ex-Coliseum site for over $10.6 million — furthering an already-city-approved plan to build up that part of the property into a new 11-story lab and office building.

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Yale Chemical Safety Building Plan Advances

by Thomas Breen | Feb 23, 2023 9:51 am | Comments (0)

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Yale's current Chemical Safety Building at 350 Edwards: To be demolished, according to Yale's Science Hill development plans.

Alders granted a needed parking-related approval for Yale’s proposal to knock down and construct a new chemical safety building off of Prospect and Edwards Streets — as the university moves ahead in the early stages of a broader plan for building up Science Hill. 

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$200K Bioscience Scholarship Fund Launched

by Thomas Breen | Jan 31, 2023 5:09 pm | Comments (4)

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Laila Mohammed (right) with Gateway CEO William Brown Tuesday.

101 College: Bioscience labs, jobs, scholarship $ coming.

As a new lab and office tower continues to rise at 101 College St., Career High School senior Laila Mohammed has her sights set on growing science-career prospects of her own — thanks to a new $200,000 scholarship fund for public school students like her who live near the development and who pursue a higher-ed degree in bioscience or STEM.

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