Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
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Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

  1. FEB 11

    Fighting Infections the World Forgot: Interview with Dr. Neima Briggs

    Billions of people live with parasitic worm infections — yet most of us never hear about them. In this episode, Dr. Neima Briggs explains why neglected tropical diseases stay neglected, how worms outsmart the immune system, and why making vaccines against parasites is far harder than for viruses. From unexpected allergic reactions in vaccine trials to the promise (and limits) of mRNA technology, we explore the science, global inequities, and future of fighting infections that thrive in poverty but increasingly affect a warming, interconnected world.

    57 min

  2. FEB 4

    Community Health Resilience Amidst Healthcare, Economic, and Environmental Challenges: An Interview with Dr. Suzi Ruhl

    How can we leverage the legal system and the medical system to best support the communities these systems should be serving? In this episode, our hosts Shivani and Shakeri interview the dearly admired Dr. Suzi Ruhl, a lawyer and epidemiologist who shares her expertise on equitably building individual and community resiliency by tackling highest priority conditions created by health, economic and environmental challenges. In this lively and enlightening conversation, Dr. Ruhl expresses the link between environmental justice and public health, the disproportionate impact of environmental, economic and health burdens faced by minority, low-income and tribal communities, and the legal, medical, and environmental dimensions to providing equitable healthcare. Links to Initiatives Mentioned in this Episode: An Environmental Justice Mapping Tool: https://www.epa.gov/ejscreen The Elevate Lab: https://medicine.yale.edu/childstudy/services/community-and-schools-programs/elevate/ Yale’s Child Study Centre: https://medicine.yale.edu/childstudy/

    55 min

  3. 12/12/2025

    Science News Special Episode – Ancient DNA and Evolutionary Genetics: An Interview with Dr. Diyendo Massilani

    YJBM Science News is back with Part 1 of our very first Special Episode! Join Hanna, Majo, and Roxanna as they sit down with Dr. Diyendo Massilani, a researcher and professor at Yale investigating evolutionary genetics. We’ll hear from Dr. Massilani about the challenges and ethical considerations of working with ancient DNA, as well as the incredible doors it has opened to what we can interrogate and what we know about extinct human populations. Keep an eye out in the new year for Part 2, which will dive into the groundbreaking work of Dr. Massilani’s former mentor and 2022 Nobel prize winner Dr. Svante Pääbo. Keep up with Dr. Massilani’s work: https://massilani-lab.com/ https://x.com/Diyendo Related links: https://news.yale.edu/2024/08/26/seeking-ethical-approach-ancient-dna-analysis Read more about YJBM at: https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/

    1h 1m

  4. 11/19/2025

    YJBM History of Medicine: Interview with the Anti-Eugenics Collective at Yale

    In this episode, we’ll learn more about the work that the Anti-Eugenics Collective at Yale (AECY) dedicates itself to. Our host, Stella Park, sits down with Modupe Karimi and Hanifah Ouro-Sama, Yale College seniors and student members of AECY, to discuss their work in the collective, particularly on AECY’s undergraduate biology curriculum project and their recent anti-eugenics workshop in London with our partners at University College London. Read the “History of Medicine” issue: https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/explore-yjbm-september-2025-issue-history-of-medicine/ Read more about YJBM at: https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/

    28 min

  5. 08/11/2025

    YJBM Epigenetics: Interview with Deputy Editors

    In this episode, we go behind the scenes with Reem and Adriana, the deputy editors who led the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine’s special issue on Epigenetics. Our hosts Isha and Delyar discuss the editors’ experience in facing new frontiers in scientific publishing, including developing protocols to detect AI-generated content and ensuring manuscripts contribute meaningfully to the scientific consensus. Read the “Epigenetics” issue: https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/explore-yjbms-june-2025-issue-on-epigenetics/ Read more about YJBM at: https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/

    32 min

  6. 07/07/2025

    Kinase Pathways Driving the Future of Tick Control: Interview with Emily Johnson”

    Could hacking a tick’s biology help prevent the next outbreak? In this episode of the YJBM, we sit down with Emily Johnson to travel across the scale of life, all the way from the environment that surrounds us to a molecular pathway called kinase signaling. We dive into the fundamentals of vector biology and the transmission of diseases like Lyme. We also discuss the tools and technologies driving the field forward, from mRNA vaccines to the potential of AI, and what the future holds for understanding disease and transmission through the lens of signaling pathways. Read more about YJBM at: https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/

    46 min

  7. 06/17/2025

    YJBM Science News 34: All About Organs

    In this week’s episode of the YJBM Science News podcast, co-hosts Hanna and Roxanna explore papers that take us all around different organs in the body! Can we 3D print functional blood vessels? How does the brain spy on our organs? Find out the answers to these questions and more as we discuss recent Yale-affiliated research in biology and medicine. Papers featured in this episode: “Development and deployment of a functional 3D-bioprinted blood vessel”: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-93276-y https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/scientists-successfully-implant-bioprinted-aorta-in-rats/ “Typhoid toxin causes neuropathology by disrupting the blood–brain barrier”: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-025-02000-z https://news.yale.edu/2025/05/09/how-typhoid-fever-triggers-severe-neurological-symptoms “Adaptation to Volumetric Compression Drives an Apoptosis-Resistant and Invasive Phenotype in Liver Cancer”: https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-0859 https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/new-study-finds-that-physical-pressure-escalates-liver-cancer-aggression/ “The subfornical organ is a nucleus for gut-derived T cells that regulate behaviour”: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09050-7 https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01655-2 https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/t-cells-take-up-residence-in-the-healthy-brain-via-a-gut-fat-brain-axis/ Read more about YJBM at: https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/

    35 min

  8. 05/20/2025

    YJBM Kinase Signaling: Interview with Deputy Editors

    Get insight into the work that went into the most recent YJBM issue, ‘Kinase Signaling’! In this episode, our hosts Shivesh Shourya and Shivani Dayal speak to this issue’s deputy editors Ingrid Heumann and Rahul Gupta to discuss early challenges in the process of creating this issue, publishing new work in the basic sciences, and future directions in the field of kinase signaling, and what they hope readers take away from this issue. Read the “Kinase Signalling” issue: https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/kinase-signaling-is-focus-of-the-march-2025-yjbm-issue/ Read more about YJBM at: https://medicine.yale.edu/yjbm/ Follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/theyjbm/

    27 min
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