Whether or not animals display status signals may depend on the social structure in which they evolved, according to Michael Sheehan, assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior.
With a $7.5 million gift from the Friedman Family Foundation, Weill Cornell Medicine has established a cross-campus center dedicated to improving human health through research in the complex relationship between nutrition, inflammation and the development of disease.
A silver World Congress of Biomechanics Young Investigator Award went to Cynthia Reinhart-King, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, for her work in cellular mechanics. (June 1, 2010)
Research on a modified protein around which DNA is wrapped sheds light on how gene regulation is linked to aging and longevity in nematodes, fruit flies and possibly humans.
Challenging an existing model, Cornell researchers show the existence of two independent epidermal stem cell populations that divide at different rates and both contribute to injury repair.
When plants develop mutually beneficial relationships with animals, mainly insects, those plant families become more diverse (evolve into more species) over time, says a new study.