During nine years in the United States Marine Corps, Harold Reed was responsible for complex systems, high-stakes decisions, and the people behind them.
For consequential decision-making, the benefits of a simple index score vs. a less-interpretable predictive AI algorithm depend, researchers from Cornell found, on the desired outcome as well as the decision’s intended audience.
Patients with advanced prostate cancer may need periodic imaging scans to catch tumor growth even with stable levels of prostate-specific antigen, a protein in the blood that doctors routinely monitor for cancer progression.
On July 1, the digital research respository arXiv, housed at Cornell Tech, will transition to an independent nonprofit, enabling faster technological development, expanded partnerships and long-term financial sustainability.
Chronic psychological stress can help tumors evade immune attack through a chain of molecular events involving gut bacteria and viruses within those bacteria.
Cornell information science researchers have developed a method that can help online advertisers ensure they’re reaching their intended audience and reduce “skew” – under-delivery to certain demographic groups.
Loss of GATA6 – a transcription factor that controls which genes are turned on or off – can reprogram colorectal cancer cells into more primitive, adaptable states that can then spread to the liver and establish new tumors.
Weill Cornell Medicine anesthesiologist Dr. Gunisha Kaur has been appointed to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an agency that monitors the universal right to freedom of religion or belief.
A new single-protein analysis technique gives researchers an unprecedented ability to study scramblases, and could someday be useful in devising new strategies against multiple diseases.
