Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine recently discovered that low levels of folate, a B vitamin essential for cell growth, can trigger specific genetic changes found in several human cancers, including lung tumors.
Revealing how psychiatric drugs reshape the brain and designing next-generation missions to find distant worlds are among the research themes that helped faculty earn Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Awards, the college’s highest recognition for groundbreaking scientific impact.
Researchers in Cornell’s Matter of Tech Lab have developed CeraPiper, a fabrication system that creates customized sizes and shapes of ceramic pipes that can be fitted together and filled with water for environmentally friendly evaporative cooling.
The new method, Semi-Local Density Fingerprints (SLDFs), can predict molecular properties with up to 100 times more accuracy than the current most popular method for modeling molecules and materials.
Manipulating mouse brains during sleep improved their ability to remember new experiences that would normally be forgotten – a finding with important implications for treating Alzheimer’s disease.
Researchers from the Cornell Bowers have developed OriStitch, a new software and fabrication system that takes simple 3D objects and spins them into a design for a textile version using carefully placed stitches in fabric.
In new research that puts the latest models to test in a 3D environment, Cornell scholars found that AI fares well with untangling basic knots but can’t quite tie knots from simple loops nor convert one knot to another.