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<lastBuildDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:49:00 EST</lastBuildDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New Synthetic Molecules Trigger Immune Response to HIV and Prostate Cancer]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7061</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:49:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Yale University have developed synthetic molecules capable of enhancing the body&rsquo;s immune response to HIV and HIV-infected cells, as well as to prostate cancer cells. Their findings, published online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, could lead to novel therapeutic approaches for these diseases.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gene Increases Susceptibility to Post-Traumatic Stress, Yale Researchers Find]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7042</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A gene variant makes people who experienced trauma as children or adults more susceptible to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Yale researchers have found.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Alexander Lauded for Helping To Lead the City’s Transformation]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7022</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce recently honored Bruce D. Alexander, vice president for New Haven and state affairs and campus development, with its Community Leadership Award.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sackler Institute Symposium Celebrates Interdisciplinary Scientific Endeavors ]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7030</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute for Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences held its inaugural symposium on Oct. 16 at West Campus.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[For Work on Dark Matter, Geha Is Chosen One of the ‘Brilliant 10’]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7004</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How do you become one of the brightest young scientists in the country? Knowing what you want to do before you're 10 years old doesn't hurt - at least in Yale astronomer Marla Geha's case.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Evolution’s Path May Lead To Shorter, Stouter Women Who Give Birth Earlier]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6989</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Yale University researchers have detected the effects of natural selection among two generations of contemporary women and predict their descendents will be slightly shorter and chubbier, have lower cholesterol and blood pressure and have their first children earlier in life.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Exhibit Highlights Diversity of Resources at the City’s Lighthouse Point Park]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6975</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[On a wind-whipped afternoon under the aerial salute of a great egret, a great blue heron and a host of curious seagulls, officials from the City of New Haven and the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History unveiled an educational exhibit at Lighthouse Point Park showcasing the natural resources of Long Island Sound and the park ecosystem.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yale Engineer Wins Packard Fellowship for Harnessing Power of Light]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6985</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hong Tang, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Yale&rsquo;s School of Engineering &amp; Applied Science, has been awarded a 2009 Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering, the foundation announced Thursday.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Terry Lectures Explore Cosmic Origins and Solutions to Today’s Global Problems]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6982</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:10:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What if the world could agree on a shared creation story based on modern cosmology and biology? Could this help resolve the undeniable global problems we face today within the context of a new cosmic perspective?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Center at Yale Will Explore What Makes the Human Brain Unique]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6964</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Leveraging more than $25 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Yale School of Medicine has created a new research center to study how our brain evolved uniquely human traits. Its founders hope that the center will identify new treatment options for many forms of mental illness, including schizophrenia, autism and bipolar disease.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When Being a Cuckold Makes Evolutionary Sense]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6963</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:45:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Evolutionary biology theory predicts that males usually won&rsquo;t invest a lot of time raising offspring when there is a good chance they are not the fathers. Yale University researchers have found a notable exception to this premise-a male fish in the Mediterranean, the ocellated wrasse, that is more likely to be paternal when there is grave doubt about the offsprings&rsquo; parentage.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Institute Promotes ‘A New Way of Thinking About Science’]]></title>
<link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6943</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Yale College senior Jocelyn Traina is studying a protein implicated in Alzheimer's disease. She needs to know physics to understand the lasers that she uses, biology to purify the protein for experiments, chemistry to test how it reacts in those experiments and biochemistry to understand how the protein folds and aggregates.]]></description>
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