A survey of more than 200 New York farmers late last summer found that more than 70 percent of unirrigated, rain-fed field crops and pasture acreage had losses between 30 and 90 percent, said a new Cornell report.
Takao Hensch, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School's Boston Children's Hospital, has won the Mortimer D. Sackler, MD Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Developmental Psychobiology.
After traveling through Vietnam's Mekong Delta in January, examining climate change through the lens of another country, four Cornell students toured the halls of Congress in late March to tell all about it.
Women with a healthy body mass index may be at risk of breast cancer because of enlarged fat cells in their breast tissue that trigger an inflammatory process, Weill Cornell Medicine research finds.
For decades, scientists have known that unhealthy surroundings induce human illness. Now, research suggests that communities of very sick people may damage the environment, according to a new study in PNAS, April 3.
Dr. Joshua Milner, an allergist and immunologist who has made key discoveries into the origin of previously unidentified disorders that affect children, has been awarded the Drukier Prize.
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers find that brain stents successfully treat symptoms of Idiopathic intracranial hypertension such as head pressure and vision loss.
The inaugural Meat and Greet Farmer and Chef Fair held March 11 at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, sought to connect consumers with farmers. The event was co-sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension.
Combining genetic information from tumor cells with 3-D cell cultures grown from these tumors, and rapidly screening approved drugs, can identify the best treatment approaches in patients.
