Osteoarthritis finding sheds light on HA injection controversy

Cornell researchers investigating why HA treatments have produced mixed results discovered that a molecule, lubricin, helps anchor HA at the tissue surface, which helps to move cartilage into a low-friction regime.

Benjamin Van Doren wins 2016 Marshall Scholarship

Benjamin Van Doren ’16 is the winner of a 2016 Marshall Scholarship, which provides funds for up to 40 U.S. students to pursue two years of graduate study at an institution in the United Kingdom.

Dean Boor, marketing expert Russo elected to AAAS

A professor of marketing and a Cornell dean who is also a food microbiologist and will be honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

New element tracking method a boon for geoscientists

A new method that allows geoscientists to tease out the exact inputs from three different sources, with implications for modeling and predicting climate change.

Plant scientists tackle big data problems at workshop

A Gates Foundaton-funded collaboration to make genomic tools for crop breeders held a workshop last week to solve their "big data" issues to make a massive genomics database for staple crops.

Mechanism underlying cell stress response discovered

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.

'Super natural killer cells' destroy lymph node tumors

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.

Tomato researchers on hunt for speck-resistant varieties

Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute are studying the bacterium speck, which causes withered flowers and dark spots on leaves and fruits, and can result in the loss of whole fields of crops.

Gift opens Lab of Ornithology's digital archive to all

A $7.5 million gift from the Macaulay Family Foundation to the the Cornell Lab of Ornithology will expand the Macaulay Library's scientific archive of natural sound and video recordings.