In the journal Nature, an international team of researchers describes the use of DNA to predict the geographic origins of individuals from a sample of Europeans, often within a few hundred kilometers of where they were born. (Sept. 2, 2008)
David Soderlund of Cornell's NYS Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva has received the International Award for Research in Agrochemicals from the Agrochemicals Division of the American Chemical Society. (Aug. 21, 2008)
Michael Welsh, one of the world's leading researchers on cystic fibrosis, will outline his recent discoveries in his quest for early diagnosis and cutting-edge gene therapies. (Aug. 14, 2008)
The Energy Recovery Linac, now in planning stages at Cornell, could revolutionize fields from biophysics, chemistry and molecular biology to high pressure physics. (Aug. 7, 2008)
Learn how animals mate, communicate, feed and prey by attending the 12th International Behavioral Ecology Congress, Aug. 10-14, at Cornell. (July 29, 2008)
Frank Schroeder and colleagues have uncovered a class of molecules in worms that attract mates and arrest development for months in larvae. The results of the study were published in Nature.
Cornell research suggests that milkweed plants may be shifting away from elaborate defenses against specialized caterpillars toward a more energy-efficient approach, namely, fast repair. (July 21, 2008)
Plant pathologist Marc Fuchs is helping New York state officials fight the plum pox virus by testing all the samples collected in the state. He expects to test more than 100,000 samples this year. (July 21, 2008)
Cornell neurobiologist Andrew Bass found that the neural network behind sound production in vertebrates can be traced back to an era long before the first animals ventured onto land. (July 17, 2008)
