A new study reveals that white blood cells called eosinophils start a chain reaction that stops the body from launching a chemical attack on parasites.
Months before the first students arrived for the first-ever semester at Cornell University, the school’s tiny faculty and administration – chiefly President Andrew Dickson White – set about placing figurative cornerstones for educational success.
Cornell researchers have uncovered details of how the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus enters host cells, findings that offer possible new avenues for treatment.
To help introduce new members of the university's faculty to the Cornell community, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles for the 2014-15 academic year.
The Cornell Heart, Lung and Blood Resource for Optogenetic Mice (CHROMus) uses light to control and observe cells and study diseases of the heart, lungs, vasculature and blood.
