Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have determined the full-length structure and function of a blood pressure-regulating hormone receptor, which may enable better drug targeting of the receptor for diseases such as hypertension and heart failure.
The garden - a collaboration between Onondaga Nation and Cornell Botanic Gardens - will enable Onondaga Nation School to incorporate more lessons from and about their own culture.
The process of identifying promising small molecule drug candidates that target cancer checkpoints may become faster and smarter through virtual screening, according to Weill Cornell Medicine researchers.
Dr. Chani Traube, professor of pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded a $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a clinical trial called Optimizing Pain Treatment in Children on Mechanical ventilation.
Researchers in the College of Veterinary Medicine and colleagues have discovered that a protein complex that helps fight cancer cells also slows the growth of tuberculosis – a finding that could mean better treatments for both diseases.
For undergraduate would-be entrepreneurs, this competition encourages examining micro- or macro-level problems and envisioning ways to fix them via innovative business ventures.
For the first time, scientists have tracked the dispersion of the Oropouche virus in the Brazilian Amazon region, an important first step to control future outbreaks of a disease with more than 100,000 reported cases since the 1960s.
