Kanvas Biosciences raises $48 million to advance microbiome cancer therapies

Kanvas Biosciences announced a $48 million Series A funding round, which will support a clinical trial later this year for the company’s lead cancer immunotherapy treatment. 

Around Cornell

Grants fund high-risk research on fungal disease and antibiotic resistance

Schwartz Research Fund Visionary Grants for faculty members in the life sciences aims to provide significant assistance for innovative, visionary research that opens an important new line of inquiry.

A breakthrough single-cell method for mapping DNA-protein interactions

A new technology allows scientists to map the DNA-binding sites of transcription factors and other regulatory proteins that control gene activity, according to a study led by Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Genome Center.

From Spoonies to sperm cells, genomics connects Cornell research

A symposium hosted by the Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics and the Cornell Center for Immunology attracted early-career researchers and faculty working across genetics, immunology, developmental biology and computational biology.

Around Cornell

Cornell professor co-hosts London Review of Books poetry podcast

‘Poetry and the Turning World’ will explore poetry as a guiding force for understanding work, technology, divorce, sex, weather, food and money.

Around Cornell

Computer framework generates ‘shadow art’ from scan of an object

Researchers at Cornell Tech and Cornell Bowers have created an AI framework that can create “shadow art” – partial line drawings that are completed by the shadow cast from an object – by simply scanning the object.

Climate change and wine grapes: Go, stay or change?

As the planet warms, wine-growing regions face an uncertain future. Should they double-down on what they grow or do something entirely different?

Wall Street pressure can help companies sharpen their focus

New research from the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business reveals that pressure to meet earnings targets may push companies to drop weak products and focus on what they do best.

Americans agree: Ultraprocessed foods pose major health hazard

Across partisan lines, Americans broadly believe ultraprocessed foods are addictive and harmful, and support policies that could strengthen safeguards and hold the food industry accountable.