Every summer for the last six years, College of Arts and Sciences alumnus Hank Fessler ’77 has welcomed a group of Cornell students to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to join research labs and explore careers in medicine.
A new study from professors in Cornell's Dyson School finds that junk food is not the culprit for obesity. Sedentary lifestyles and and inadequate consumption of healthier foods is the culprit.
The National Institutes of Health announced Sept. 27 that Cornell is one of three institutions nationwide to receive funding to establish a collaborative research center for the study of chronic fatigue syndrome.
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.
Anesthesia induces unconsciousness by changing the function of proteins on the surface of a thin membrane that forms a barrier around all cells, according to Weill Cornell Medicine scientists.
Researchers at Cornell and Weill Cornell Medical College have received a $1.34 million grant to study whether obesity changes breast tissue in a manner similar to tumors, thereby permitting the disease to develop.
An interdisciplinary study led by biomedical engineering professor Claudia Fischbach-Teschl connects breast cancer metastasis to the nanocrystal structure of certain bone regions where metastasis occurs.
On Jan. 2, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations’ new New York City headquarters and conference center opened in the historic General Electric building at 570 Lexington Ave. Several other Cornell colleges, units and programs will soon be using space in the building.
New insights into a complex mechanism that contributes to the growth of telomeres, the repetitive sequences of DNA that protect the end of a cell’s chromosomes, may lead to future cancer treatments.