Bactana Animal Health, a new company providing a natural, sustainable alternative to dosing livestock prophylactically with antibiotics and hormones, joined Cornell’s McGovern Center in May.
New York state high school students came to campus June 29 for the New York Youth Institute, an ambitious program that aims to build a core of young leaders to battle hunger around the world.
Symposium to showcase program that trained students to use interdisciplinary approaches to food systems and agriculture issues that contribute to extreme poverty.
The viruses ravaging cassava farms in Africa, and efforts to combat them through plant breeding, are the subject of a new Cornell University documentary film produced by International Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Tomatoes are an ideal model species for plant research, but researchers at the Cornell-affiliated Boyce Thompson Institute made them more useful by cutting the time to modify tomato genes by a third.
Thanks to a changing environment, trees and other plants experience advanced budding and blooming – or season creep. Toby Ault will discuss "springcasting" in a March 3 webinar.
Ralph W.F. Hardy, a biochemist who called for better biotechnology research and scientific transparency regarding genetically modified foods, died Aug. 2 in Wilmington, Delaware, at age 82.
Bacillus cereus can no longer hide. The food safety world now has a new tool to find foodborne illness – the bacteria's own whole genome, reports Cornell food scientists.
NEW YORK – When cooking your favorite pasta or enjoying a delicious type of bread or baked good, how much thought do you give to the wheat and grains that make that food possible?
For nearly a century, there were only a few types…