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Design of the new lab-and-office building that might now not be built.
The site of New Haven’s next planned biosciences office and lab tower will remain an empty lot for now — as Yale pulls back its biotech investments in light of possible federal funding cuts.
by | Apr 4, 2025 10:46 am | Comments (5)
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Chemistry prof Nilay Hazari at WNHH FM.
In a Prospect Street chemistry lab, Nilay Hazari and his colleagues found a new way to help green the planet.
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.
Continue reading ‘Biotower Bustles At Bio-Biz Award Ceremony’
by | Dec 3, 2024 8:58 am | Comments (1)
"Mind/Matter" show panel: Something's not quite right here ...
Look once, and it’s just an upside-down face of a woman smiling. But look again, perhaps a third time, and a few details seem off. Something’s wrong, definitely wrong, even if you can’t quite figure out what it is.
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.
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Do We Know Each Other? Do We Know Ourselves?’
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.
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.
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.
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
Continue reading ‘New Haven Newz Quiz (AI-pocalypse edition)’
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.
Continue reading ‘Yale Panel Welcomes “Psychedelic Renaissance”’
by | May 13, 2024 11:22 am | Comments (16)
221, 215, and 209 Church (with green ex-bank awning), now all now owned by Biohaven.
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, a publicly traded company, bought its third building on the same block of Church Street, transforming the commercial mission of a downtown block once known for banking.
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.
by | Mar 14, 2024 1:35 pm | Comments (1)
Hi Pi Day!
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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.
by | Oct 3, 2023 12:37 pm | Comments (10)
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Yale's Science Hill, soon to boom with new lab and classroom building.
Yale took three small steps forward in its plans to construct a football stadium-sized — at least in square footage — physical sciences and engineering building on university-owned property known as “Science Hill.”
Continue reading ‘Yale Steps Towards Major Science Development’
by | 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.
by | Mar 28, 2023 8:43 am | Comments (16)
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Ex-Coliseum, next bioscience hub? Below: Ancora CEO Parker.
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Why is a London-insurance-giant-backed real estate developer about to drop $220 million on constructing a new 11-story lab and office building atop a “10th Square” surface parking lot?
Two words: Yale. Bioscience.
by | 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.
Continue reading ‘Lab Builder Buys "10th Sq." Corner For $10M+’
by | Mar 8, 2023 12:26 pm | Comments (5)
Alfred Guy and Jennifer Frederick at WNHH FM.
How to serve man?
ChatGPT did not write this sentence.
Or any part of this article.
A human did. At least for now.
Continue reading ‘Abandon No Hope, All Ye Who Enter ChatGPT’
by | Feb 28, 2023 4:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Tuesday’s snow day gave Huân Ngô time to catch up on grading papers and preparing his students for New Haven’s jobs of tomorrow.
Continue reading ‘The Word On Maple Street: STEM? 'Snow Sweat’
by | 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.
Continue reading ‘Yale Chemical Safety Building Plan Advances’
by | Feb 20, 2023 1:45 pm | Comments (3)
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Doing the solar system dance at Harris and Tucker preschool.
Tysin, a 4‑year-old budding outer space enthusiast, had a question for the special guest from NASA who had come to visit his Newhallville preschool: “How can I touch a star?”
Continue reading ‘Black Stars Shine Bright In Preschool's Orbit’
by | Feb 15, 2023 12:07 pm | Comments (1)
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Chemical engineer Edwin Cardenas at vax-building work in ACT's local lab.
A new all-synthetic vaccine against malaria may emerge from a third-floor laboratory in Science Park if research underway there comes to fruition.
Continue reading ‘Biotech Biz Seeks Malaria Vax Breakthrough’