The first-ever 'disease in a Petri dish' platform that models human colon cancer derived from stem cells has been developed by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators, allowing them to identify a targeted drug treatment for a common, inherited form of the disease.
Faculty from Cornell Neurotech shared stories of technologies they have developed in their first year of operation at a Reunion 2017 panel, "Unlocking the Brain: Cornell's Search for the Key."
Graduate student Megan Hall's research of sour rot grape disease earned her the 2017 Presidents' Award for Scholarship in Viticulture from the American Society of Enology and Viticulture.
Colin Parrish, Ph.D. ’84, an expert in animal virology, will share share his knowledge and ideas as a visiting professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, as Fulbright scholar.
A new study analyzed close to 4,500 maize varieties bred and grown by farmers from 35 countries in the Americas to identify more than 1,000 genes driving large-scale adaptation to the environment.
An Internationalizing the Cornell Curriculum grant supports Ecology and Conservation of Wildlife in the Neotropics, a seven-week undergraduate seminar with a field research component in Argentina.