By observing the battle between bacterial speck disease and tomatoes, biologists have discovered how plant cells resist some ailments. Researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. and Cornell can now demonstrate how disease-causing organisms deliver destructive agents to plants, and how the plants fight back.
At its meeting July 19, the Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit Board of Directors passed a resolution supporting the development of a downtown, intermodal transportation center.
For many dairy cows, summertime living isn't easy. In the northeastern United States, heat stress can make the animals more susceptible to mastitis, laminitis and acidosis. It can also adversely affect the growth rates of unborn calves and reduce a cow's capacity to make milk by as much as one-third.
The human hepatitis C virus is a target of drug-discovery research by a Cornell scientist and an Ithaca company, among the latest recipients of support from the New York Science, Technology and Academic Research program.
The Los Alamos E-Print Archive, which is widely credited with revolutionizing the way physical scientists and mathematicians communicate, is moving from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to Cornell University.
Four local organizations will share Cornell University's 2001 Tompkins Trust Co. – Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation. This is the eighth year for the award.
Isaac Kramnick, a 30-year Cornell University faculty member who serves as the Richard J. Schwartz Professor and chair of the Department of Government, has been named vice provost for undergraduate education. Announcing the appointment, effective July 1.
The Thurston Avenue bridge spanning Fall Creek at the edge of Beebe Lake and the western end of Forest Home Drive on the Cornell University campus will be closed from 6:30 p.m. on Friday, July 13, so that NYSEG can repair a leaking gas main.
Due to recently determined structural problems, Cornell University officials announced today that all occupants of the university's Martha Van Rensselaer North building will be relocated to temporary offices in other buildings. The north wing will not be occupied after July 13.
When Cornell University biologists claimed, in 1998, that the traditional use of spices has a function other than making food taste good -- namely to help protect against more and more dangerous forms of foodborne microbes -- one thing was missing from their antimicrobial hypothesis. Now, the Cornell researchers have stirred in that missing ingredient, showing why vegetable-based recipes in 36 countries around the world are less spicy than meat-based dishes in the same societies. "Without spoiling your lunch, let's just say that the cells of dead plants continue to be better protected against bacteria and fungi than are the cells of dead animals, whose immune systems cease to function at time of death," says researcher Paul W. Sherman. "Meat-based recipes that were developed over the centuries in hot climates need all the help they can get from antimicrobial spices, whereas foodborne pathogens are less of a problem in plant-based foods. Indeed, meat products are more often associated with outbreaks of foodborne illness than vegetables, especially in hot climates."
