A discovery by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators may settle a longstanding debate about how cancers spread, the investigators say, and may change the way many forms of the disease are treated.
Weill Cornell Medicine has entered into an agreement with Top Spring Huaxia Medical Investment to help it develop a modern outpatient diagnostic clinic in Shenzhen, China.
New Cornell research published online Nov. 9 in Nature Cell Biology describes a system that controls levels of a cell's sensors, which are responsible for detecting the accumulation of misfolded proteins.
Cornell biomedical engineers have developed specialized white blood cells – dubbed "super natural killer cells" – that seek out cancer cells in lymph nodes with only one purpose: destroy them.
As many as one out of 10 people age 60 and older will experience some kind of abuse, most often in the form of financial exploitation, says a new Cornell study.
Good news for consumers with a sweet tooth. Cornell food scientists have reduced the sweetener stevia's bitter aftertaste by physical – rather than chemical – means, as noted in the journal Food Chemistry.
A Weill Cornell Medicine investigators suggests a lung function test frequently to evaluate whether a smoker is at risk for developing pulmonary disease is likely mislabeling smokers as healthy.
Cornell University's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and Environmental Defense Fund announced four new research projects addressing pressing health and environmental issues Nov. 9. The projects mark the official launch of a new partnership between the two institutions.
Obesity impairs the body’s ability to use vitamin A appropriately and leads to deficiencies of the vitamin in major organs, according to new research conducted at Weill Cornell Medicine.