by | Apr 22, 2019 7:37 am | Comments (4)
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Big Data-crunching BioXcel computer; below, CEO Vimal Mehta.
Twelve stories above New Haven Harbor, a burgeoning biotech company is using Big Data technology to mine Big Pharma chemistry to create drugs that treat pancreatic cancer and symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease, schizophrenia, and delirium.
by | Apr 16, 2019 7:31 am | Comments (0)
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Chief Tony Reyes: We want to be associated with healing.
In the past, New Haven cops might not have known what to say to a 5‑year-old who keeps watching television while they put his dad in handcuffs for bruising his mom.
Now, thanks to a new training program created with the Yale Child Study Center, after decades of studying local officers at work, an officer would know they could sit down at eye level with the child, teach them breathing techniques to calm down and ask if they have a plan next time something happens.
Continue reading ‘17 Cops Trained To Respond To Trauma-Exposed Kids’
by | Apr 10, 2019 8:09 am | Comments (1)
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Samuel Smith, 20 and living with HIV, testifies.
A change in state law won’t come soon enough to have protected Samuel Smith from contracting HIV during his senior year at Wilbur Cross High School. He told state lawmakers about that — in the hopes that they’ll make the fix for other kids soon.
Continue reading ‘Real-life HIV Stories PrEP State For Change’
by | Apr 5, 2019 1:44 pm | Comments (4)
Prize-winning Mars habitat (above); McGhee on earth/ water (below).
A four-module structure printed out at New Haven’s MakeHaven may pop up again in outer space, enabling humans to explore a planetary neighbor up close.
A “space nerd” who lives on a sailboat at City Point had the vision, then put together the plan.
by | Apr 4, 2019 7:58 am | Comments (4)
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Bishop Woods students cheer on wind-powered vehicles in a schoolwide race.
Two plastic straws. Two wooden skewers. Two pieces of cardboard. One sheet of paper. One fuzzy pipe cleaner. And one plastic bag.
by | Feb 26, 2019 5:08 pm | Comments (6)
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A rendering of the redesigned Peabody Museum, viewed from the intersection of Sachem and Whitney.
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Yale Community Affairs Associate Karen King at last week’s City Plan Commission meeting.
The City Plan Commission has signed off on Yale’s proposed renovation of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, paving the way for significantly more exhibition space, bus parking, and pedestrian connections to Yale’s Science Hill.
The new design doesn’t include a cafeteria, so visitors made hungry by the insects and dinosaurs on display will still have to find lunch elsewhere — to the disappointment of some commissioners.
by | Jan 24, 2019 4:24 pm | Comments (0)
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Phill Modeen with Willie Wilson at the ozobot hour.
“You have to wait for it to light up,” Willie Wilson said to Prince Toney.
by | Jan 23, 2019 4:36 pm | Comments (3)
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Smith makes her case.
In the early 2000s, a Yale scientist discovers why cutting your arm or finger can result in nerve cells regenerating, but not so if your injury is in the spinal column. He figures out how to inhibit the inhibitors of regeneration for the central nervous system.
In 2010, a company is formed to research the drug, and it passes tests with mice, rats, and monkeys.
In early 2019, human clinical trials are all set to go, giving hope to nearly 17,000 people a year — many young adults — with paralyzing spinal injuries, for whom there’s no reversing treatment, only physical therapy.
Then comes the federal government shutdown.
Continue reading ‘Biotech Entrepreneur: Fed Shutdown Is Shutting Down Our New Drug’
by | Jan 10, 2019 3:12 pm | Comments (3)
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Mayor Toni Harp sees opportunity in the current misfortunes of downtown’s Temple Medical Center.
by | Jan 8, 2019 5:04 pm | Comments (3)
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ECIC Director Michael Harris at City Hall Tuesday morning.
Invest in job training. Invest in physical spaces. Invest in accessibility.
Continue reading ‘New Innovation Director Plots Tech-Jobs Strategy’
by | Dec 12, 2018 1:33 pm | Comments (7)
Medical marijuana coming to the former 7-Eleven.
New Haven will soon get its first medical marijuana dispensary and it’s coming to upper Whalley Avenue
Continue reading ‘Medical Marijuana Coming To Upper Whalley’
by | Oct 4, 2018 6:59 pm | Comments (1)
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Gregg Gonsalves and Titus Kaphar.
Two pathbreaking New Haveners won prestigious MacArthur “genius” awards Thursday.
by | Oct 2, 2018 5:26 pm | Comments (2)
Chinese schools are using artificial intelligence-empowered facial recognition to keep watch over students, and prod them to perform better.
They’re cheering. Should we?
And are our classrooms next?
Continue reading ‘AI Decoder: When Big Brother Enters The Classroom’
by | Sep 3, 2018 10:08 am | Comments (1)
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Bishop Woods fifth-grader Iyonna Heath, who can’t get enough science stuff on YouTube, gets the real thing — a lesson in astronomy — from Science Haven’s Nicholas Frattini at the closing event on the Green.
Kids in New Haven this summer learned how the electricity in their muscles, signalled by the brain, lifts things up — the power behind many prosthetic devices.
Just by using using a couple of light blue hand weights and a spinning chair, they took a fun lesson on why stars and planets at the center of a galaxy spin faster than those on the far reaches.
And, if their number came up, they could win a Connecticut (football) Cowboys Fan Club back pack in a raffle.
by | Aug 7, 2018 4:03 pm | Comments (0)
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Safia explores GIS .
On Tuesday, an excited group of middle schoolers learned about the importance of geographical mapping systems.
by | Jul 19, 2018 8:14 am | Comments (34)
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Parent Kirsten Hopes-McFadden, who came concerned, left impressed.
After a detailed explanation of how it works and how it protects children’s rights, a Yale University research project connected to the genetic testing of some students is back in good standing with at least two members of the Board of Education.
by | Jul 10, 2018 4:02 pm | Comments (57)
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Goldson: What do students get?
Henrietta Lacks.
The spirit of Henrietta Lacks entered the cafetorium of Celentano Biotech, Health, and Medical Magnet School Monday evening as the Board of Ed contemplated if it should accept a grant connected to the genetic testing of students.
It tabled action on the grant after a quick but intense debate about historical wrongs committed against minorities by prestigious universities and the government in the name of scientific research.
by | Jul 2, 2018 5:30 pm | Comments (20)
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Blumenthal: The fight of our lives.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said the recent retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is not a drill. And if Americans who believe in the reproductive rights —the human rights — of women don’t take action, the Trump administration will likely appoint a new justice who will roll back Roe v. Wade.
Continue reading ‘Blumenthal: Contact Murkowski, Collins, McCain To Save Roe v. Wade’
by | Jun 4, 2018 5:05 pm | Comments (5)
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Geradi sits with her mother and AP Chemistry teacher during an award ceremony Monday.
Wilbur Cross High School senior Maya Geradi started her science career under her kitchen table with materials she ordered online.
by | May 31, 2018 7:44 am | Comments (0)
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Arvinas founder Craig Crews and Murphy talk about federal funding Wednesday.
Recruit and retain scientists. Attract more venture capital money. Start more businesses. Develop more treatments and cures for diseases.
Those are some of the ways that New Haven that bioscience and biotechnology companies would like to spend money if Congress gives the National Institutes of Health more funding.
by | May 17, 2018 12:41 pm | Comments (14)
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Greenberg at City Hall Wednesday night.
A medical marijuana dispensary could be coming to New Haven — specifically to Amity Road — if the state approves an application from a local businessman.
by | May 14, 2018 4:26 pm | Comments (2)
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Michael Petrescu and Brian MacWilliam prepare for the launch.
Eight rockets flew into the air Monday night at a launch culminating a month of hard work.
by | May 9, 2018 12:14 pm | Comments (0)
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The Metro Academy Weather Balloon Brigade: Melanie Jimenez, Julia Alvarez, Cynthia Sanchez, Richard Cabrera, chemistry teacher Tyler Peterhansel, Kameron Dorsey, Jhenzen Gonzales, and Deja Telaford.
The idea came from watching a YouTube video: The juniors at Metropolitan Business Academy thought they could learn much more about gas laws by building and launching a weather balloon.
Now that’s what they’re planning to do just as soon as they raise $500.
by | Dec 1, 2017 1:20 pm | Comments (1)
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Seventh-grader Saad Ourodjeri explores smell and memory.
A tube from a vacuum cleaner was the neuron or nerve cell. Green pipe cleaners were the dendrites. And a set of dominoes stood in for how the “action potential” resets the cell so that a new memory can be created.
Continue reading ‘SCSU Science Squad Brings “Flame Challenge” To King Robinson’
by | Oct 13, 2017 8:06 am | Comments (10)
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Richard Therrien: “Figure things out” rather than memorize facts.
As part of an effort to meet new state standards, city students learning about cells in science classes will now take a look at the cell’s structure under a microscope first before they learn the exact terminology for what they’re seeing.