Kathy Luz Herrera, an activist, union electrician at Cornell and second-term Tompkins County legislator, spoke about her activist background, Jan. 31, in Sage Chapel as part of the 'Soup for Hope' series. (Feb. 1, 2008)
The reproductive biology of the fruit fly may have a lot to teach us about human fertility. Cornell research identifies six so-called accessory-gland proteins in the seminal fluid of fruit flies that affect reproduction. (Jan. 30, 2008)
The root systems of trees are known to be major storage banks for carbon dioxide (CO2), a major greenhouse gas implicated in global warming. Figuring out exactly how much of the carbon is held by these roots has been complicated by the difficulty of predicting the mass of the underground root systems. But now Cornell University professor of plant biology Karl Niklas and a colleague have proposed a mathematical sealing model that is able to predict very accurately size-dependent relationships for small- and intermediate-size plants, from the very smallest herbaceous plants to the world's tallest trees. In doing so, the model can determine the mass of root systems. (January 31, 2005)
The U.S. government has awarded the Arthur S. Fleming Award to Edward Buckler, a U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Station (USDA-ARS) research geneticist in Cornell's Institute for Genomic Diversity and an…
Seemingly against the odds in a tough economic year, this year's Cornell reunion classes and graduating senior class broke records in making gifts to support the university. (June 25, 2009)
"Being talented and dedicated, one of you could be standing here in 2039 as the chairman or CEO of a major American company and looking back at the good old days in 2006," said Sharon L. Allen, the first woman chairman of…
To prevent runaway climate changes, governments must change fossil fuel policies, said world-renowned climatologist James Hansen to a packed house at Cornell April 19. (April 20, 2010)
New York, NY (February 12, 2004) -- Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have discovered that injecting a growth factor called PDGF-AB along with bone marrow cells into the heart can cause new heart cells to grow in scar tissue. The research, conducted in an animal model, has just been published in the "Online First" section of Circulation Research (March 19 print and online issue).The finding may one day lead to better treatments for heart attack, which can cause portions of the heart to die and form scar tissue. Many researchers are trying to use stem cells -- which are immature cells found in bone marrow -- to replace cells that are dead or damaged after a heart attack.