Cornell researchers have discovered a way to open one of the major barriers to the brain, called the blood brain barrier, which prevents the entry of therapies to treat brain disorders.
The first Big Red STEM Day exposed high school students from communities underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to educational and career opportunities in those fields.
Cornell researchers investigating why HA treatments have produced mixed results discovered that a molecule, lubricin, helps anchor HA at the tissue surface, which helps to move cartilage into a low-friction regime.
Dr. Rahul Sharma has been named emergency physician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and chief of the Division of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.
The consequences of climate change look bleak for the Southwest and much of America's breadbasket, the Great Plains. A "megadrought" will likely occur late in this century journal Science Advances.
The Ithaca Medical Education Program brings Weill Cornell Medicine residents upstate for hands-on clinical experience and exposure to rural medical practice.
Think tofu but with a creepy-crawly, sustainable twist: A Cornell food science team will compete Feb. 14 at the Thought for Food Global Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, with C-fu – a new protein product made entirely of crushed mealworms.
A $4.2 million project at Cornell focused on 100 Alaskan sled dogs, former athletes past their glory days, is part of a quest for one of the holy grails of medicine: how to slow aging.
A Cornell study describes for the first-time evidence of ‘jumping genes’ adopting a bacterial immune mechanism for transferring genetic material between bacteria and across bacterial species.