CareTech Human finds health data in what we flush away

The November Startup Cornell podcast features the founder of CareTech Human, a company based out of Cornell’s Center for Life Science Ventures on campus.

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Student club helps incarcerated people earn a second chance

For students in the Cornell University Parole Initiative Club, parole applications are more than just paperwork.

Direct communication is best for getting program’s healthy-eating message across

A survey of hundreds of Double Up Food Bucks N.Y. recipients revealed that face-to-face interpersonal communication strategies predicted greater total daily fresh fruit and vegetable intake than mass communication methods.

NYS integrated pest management program doubles return on taxpayer investment

The study underscores the value of a state-funded, Cornell-run program that has helped farmers protect their crops from pests for more than 40 years. 

Real-time view inside batteries leads to faster, cheaper battery production

Cornell researchers, working with an upstate New York battery company, have developed a real-time diagnostic approach to improving one of the most expensive and time-consuming stages of lithium-ion battery manufacturing: forming the battery.

Cornell startup seeks to redefine food, ag, industrial testing 

Quantera’s Curio HS prepares dozens of samples at once and is entering a pilot with E. & J. Gallo Winery.

Global food, ag innovators to compete for $3M at Grow-NY Summit

The annual two-day food and agriculture business competition and networking event will take place Nov. 12-13 at the DoubleTree hotel in Rochester, New York.

Virus that sickens cows, kills deer, still rare in NYS – for now

An insect-driven disease that causes high mortality in white-tailed deer, and mimics the symptoms of foot and mouth disease in cattle, is still rare in New York state, but the warming climate may increase its spread, Cornell researchers found.

Students create first in-depth map of ‘forever chemicals’ in the Finger Lakes

Undergraduates tested more than 300 bodies of water for 24 common per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Finger Lakes region.