Yale researchers led by John Carlson, Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, discovered a naturally occurring compound in garlic that halts mating and egg-laying in insects.

Breaker, a field-leading biochemist and Yale leader, will serve as the FAS dean of science for a five-year term.

Two faculty members received Yale College’s oldest teaching award during a ceremony last week, while the longest serving college dean was honored for her support of teaching and learning.

Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis recognized four recipients of the college’s annual teaching prizes—who span all three divisions of the FAS—during a campus reception.

A new Yale study of flatworms, a species with the unique ability to “regenerate,” reveals that disruptions in the body’s internal “map” of cellular organization may play a part in age-related decline. The study was led by a PhD student, Andrew Verdesca, in the lab of Josien van Wolfswinkel, Associate Professor in Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology.

Susan Baserga, William H. Fleming Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and F. Kenneth Nelson, Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, were elected to the latest class of fellows for the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Ronald Breaker, Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, reflects on his career and his discovery of riboswitches—ancient RNA devices that sense molecules and control genes.

David Breslow, Associate Professor in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and his lab are using a genetic screening technique they developed that reveals an unprecedented view into the relationship between developing cells and disease.

In a Q&A, trailblazing chemist and serial entrepreneur Craig Crews — whose third venture was recently acquired for more than $3 billion — discusses the transformative science emerging from Yale, and how bringing innovative ideas to market is good for the university and New Haven.

A company utilizing an approach to capturing disease-causing proteins developed by the lab of Craig Crews, John C. Malone Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Chemistry, was recently acquired by Johnson & Johnson.