A new initiative on academic integration will connect research across Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell Tech and the Ithaca campus. Dr. Gary Koretzky will lead the effort, which will tie together investigation and discovery.
The Institute for Food Safety at Cornell, announced Dec. 15 with a $2 million state grant, establishes a comprehensive center that connects training and research to check foodborne illness.
Starving immune cells of key nutrients stymies their ability to launch an allergic response, according to new research from a multi-institutional collaboration led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.
Decision-making tools for cancer treatment should incorporate patient's 'essential bottom line,' according to Valerie F. Reyna, professor of human development in Cornell’s College of Human Ecology.
Children served vegetables and cheese ate 72 percent fewer calories than those served potato chips, and reported being just as satisfied, reports a new Cornell study. (Dec. 17, 2012)
Cornell researchers describe a genetic variation that has evolved in populations that have historically eaten vegetarian diets, such as in India, Africa and parts of East Asia.
The Pre-Seed Workshop, sponsored by the Cornell Center for Life Science Enterprise, offers scientists guidance on how to move their technologies and inventions from the lab to the marketplace.
Funding from the Gates Foundation will allow the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative to scale up its work promoting a more nutrition-sensitive food system aimed at bolstering the diet of the rural poor.
In a panel of new proposed federal dietary guidelines in Washington, D.C., March 18, two Cornell professors look at their potential impact and food-industry efforts to weaken the guidelines.