The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded Cornell a $4.8 million, three-year grant to fight hunger and improve food security using agricultural science and technology.
Aside from that energy jolt, food scientists say you may reap another health benefit from a daily cup of joe: prevention of deteriorating sight and possible blindness from retinal degeneration.
As diners belly-up to a buffet, food order matters. When healthy foods are offered first, eaters are less likely to desire the higher calorie dishes later in the line, says a new Cornell behavioral study in the online journal PLOS One.
Gilbert Stoewsand, a Cornell food scientist who helped to rescue New York's fledgling wine industry in the early 1970s by debunking shoddy science that attributed health risks wine made from hybrid grapes, died July 4. He was 83.
Weill Cornell Medicine has entered into an agreement with Top Spring Huaxia Medical Investment to help it develop a modern outpatient diagnostic clinic in Shenzhen, China.
A research team led by Eve Donnelly, assistant professor in materials science and engineering, has published a study regarding a dangerous side effect of long-term use of bisphosphonates to treat osteoporosis.
The Dean's Entrepreneurship Lab provides resources and education opportunities to students and faculty who have ideas with commercial potential that they want to translate from the lab to the patient.
The Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes hosted a Cancer Moonshot Summit June 29 to support a White House initiative to double the rate of cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Genetic cues from male mosquitoes passed on during sex affect which genes are turned on or off in females post-mating, offering clues for controlling mosquitoes that carry diseases.