As the population of people on Earth has skyrocketed since the rise of agriculture some 10,000 years ago - to 7 billion people from a few million - so too has the number of rare genetic variants.
A recent Cornell-led study has found that a type of immune cells, called natural killer T cells, plays a powerful role in reducing obesity-related inflammation and improving insulin resistance.
Andrew G. Clark, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Population Genetics and Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
A new course in the College of Veterinary Medicine helped four of six graduate students who applied win National Science Foundation fellowships. (April 25, 2012)
Cornell veterinary students and clinical faculty will join volunteer alumni to offer a daylong animal wellness clinic in Brooklyn at the Bedford-Stuyvesant YMCA May 5. The cost will be $20 per pet.
Adam Siepel, associate professor of biological statistics and computational biology, has received a Guggenheim fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. (April 17, 2012)
Researchers discover a class of small molecules that all nematodes use to signal many processes could help prevent and treat worm parasites that widely infect humans, animals and crops.
