A Gates Foundaton-funded collaboration to make genomic tools for crop breeders held a workshop last week to solve their "big data" issues to make a massive genomics database for staple crops.
Mark Colasurdo ’15, who is legally blind, uses ingenuity and innovation to come up with creative workarounds to compensate for severe limitations to his vision.
The plant nicknamed "Wee Stinky," one of two flowering-sized titan arums in Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory, is prepping for a dazzling reproductive effort to make itself big, hot and smelly.
A $25 million National Science Foundation award will fund a Science and Technology Center aimed at transforming the field of structural biology, including drug development, using X-ray lasers.
Last month, Cornell hosted 13 Swedish researchers for the Stockholm-Cornell Symposium on Insect Biology, reciprocating a similar meeting held in Stockholm in 2011.
The New York State Cooperative Wildlife Health Program – a partnership among Cornell and New York state to track and manage wildlife diseases – will receive $4.8 million over the five years.
The awards are intended to reflect the broad range of life science fields at Cornell and aim to promote collaborative and integrative research that crosses disciplines. (Dec. 2, 2011)
A comprehensive study of gene expression in tomato fruits will explore unanswered questions about fruit development and drought resistance, to improve crop quality and yields.