Cornell plant breeders have released a new alfalfa variety with some resistance against alfalfa snout beetle, which has ravaged alfalfa fields in New York.
A gift from Mong Family Foundation, through Stephen Mong '92, MEN '93, MBA '02, will create Cornell Neurotech, a cross-campus effort to understand how individual brain cells function.
Because urban sanitation scores don't tell the whole story in India, Cornell water-resources experts recommend allowing cities to custom-design measures that will save lives and lift their residents to improved health.
When tissues stiffen, as they do with tumors, a new study shows that proteins produced by such cells can be altered, which in turn affects downstream processes.
At a food industry summit in Syracuse June 22, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., discussed a bill she is co-sponsoring to aid in the training of high-demand food industry workers.
The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management’s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise will lead a $2.3 million effort to improve economic links to marine ecosystems.
By taking a series of near-atomic resolution snapshots, Cornell and Harvard Medical School scientists have observed step-by-step how bacteria defend against foreign invaders.
Former post-doctoral researcher Royall Tyler Moore bequeathed nearly $500,000 to Cornell, which will be administered by the School of Integrated Plant Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Researchers report in Cell Host and Microbe how the structure of a protein allows a bacteria to interfere with the tomato plant's immune system, and cause bacterial speck disease.
The Cornell Heart, Lung and Blood Resource for Optogenetic Mice (CHROMus) uses light to control and observe cells and study diseases of the heart, lungs, vasculature and blood.