Cornell's Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors has produced three online videos telling young women to avoid personal-care products, cosmetics and plastics containing chemicals that mimic estrogen and may increase breast-cancer risk. (June 5, 2008)
Globalization brings new disease threats to animals and humans, Corrie Brown, professor of veterinary pathology at the University of Georgia, said at the 2008 Smith-Kilborne Foreign Animal Disease Program at Cornell May 28.
Gene therapy is a safe and effective way of slowing the debilitating and ultimately fatal effects of Batten disease, Weill Cornell researcher Ronald Crystal and colleagues found. (May 30, 2008)
Researchers have devised a method of generating microwaves at up to terahertz frequencies on an ordinary silicon chip at power levels that could be used for skin cancer detection and airport security. (May 29, 2008)
New research by Karl Pillemer and Weill Cornell Medical College's Mark Lachs and Tony Rosen suggests that aggression and violence between nursing home residents is a prevalent and serious problem. (May 29, 2008)
Biophysicist Michelle Wang is the first researcher on Cornell's Ithaca campus to be named an HHMI Investigator, an award that recognizes innovative and promising researchers in the biomedical sciences. (May 28, 2008)
Cornell and state officials performed a ceremonial dig at the groundbreaking event for a new $80.5 million New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Center on May 22. (May 27, 2008)
Cornell study finds healthy adults who were close to the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, have less gray matter in key emotion centers of their brains. (May 27, 2008)
Cornell faculty members Gail Holst-Warhaft and Tammo Steenhuis will meet with government leaders, activists and academics in Greece this summer to discuss the water-scarcity problem in the Mediterranean. (May 27, 2008)
