Cornell is part of a new, multistate, $3 million U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to better understand how selectively breeding their herds to encourage milk production is reducing their fertility.
A panel of experts explored “The Genomic Revolution: How DNA Information Is Changing Our Lives” in a Charter Day Weekend panel April 26, including genetic screening for diseases.
As human population grows, disease-causing genetic mutations per individual increase, but each mutation is less harmful, when compared with a population that is not growing, says a Cornell study.
Since 1998, hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dead eider ducks have been washing up every year on Cape Cod’s beaches. Scientists have pinned down one of the agents responsible: a pathogen they’re calling Wellfleet Bay virus.
Wee Stinky’s sibling, one of the original four titan arums in Cornell’s collection since 2002, now is pushing its flower up from beneath the soil and is expected to bloom in June.
Studying everything from potential medicine to the aromatic properties of popular beverages, about 120 undergraduates put project posters on display April 22 at the 30th Annual Spring Research Forum.
The Presidential Life Sciences Fellowships program is intended to help form integrative new disciplines within the life sciences and to expand and support students' interdisciplinary interests. (Dec. 1, 2009)
On her first visit to Cornell, A.D. White Professor Margaret McFall-Ngai noted Sept. 25 that plants and animals are dependent on trillions of microorganisms. (Oct. 3, 2012)
Weill Cornell Medical College investigators have invalidated a previously reported molecular finding on triple negative breast cancer that many hoped would lead to targeted treatments for the aggressive disease.
A study asserts that, in the presence of a gentle fluid flow, the biophysics of the female reproductive tract – in particular, the grooves that line parts of it – critically assist sperm migration.