Proactive outreach and Cornell’s tradition of supporting military service have helped grow the number of cadets and midshipmen joining the Tri-Service Brigade this year.
Eventual proof of a clear association between genes that express a salivary enzyme and Type 2 diabetes could lead to genetically testing people at birth to predict their susceptibility.
Plants – as objects of admiration and scientific study and materials for creative expression – are the focus of a new Cornell University Library exhibit, “Plant-Based: Botanical Innovations from Paper to Poison,” which opens Sept. 18.
Snapshot NY aims to collect widespread data about animal populations throughout New York state - using thousands of trail cameras - and is engaging the public to aid the effort.
Cornell geochemists and synthetic biologists have collaborated to improve the efficiency of microbes that can dissolve rocks to extract critical minerals while speeding carbon sequestration from air.
Since relocating to Upstate New York, Myanmar refugees’ relationship to fishing has shifted, from angling for food and nutrition to being a means for maintaining social connections, time outdoors and emotional well-being.
For decades, researchers searched for a single “thermosensor”—a biological thermometer buried deep in the plant’s molecular machinery. But a new theory, led by Avilash Singh Yadav, postdoctoral associate at the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is flipping that idea on its head.
A Cornell-based startup is advancing a solution that could improve care for the millions of people suffering from urological conditions in the U.S. CareTech Human, a member of Cornell’s Center for Life Science Ventures, has leveraged $500,000 in pre-seed equity funding to conduct clinical trials of its cutting-edge technology.