Female athletes with low levels of iron in their bodies, yet who are not anemic, may be at a disadvantage even before their competitive season starts, according to a new Cornell study. (Nov. 18, 2011)
Xiling ShenA graphical abstract illustrates how a microRNA acts as a hard switch to determine colon cancer stem cell fate.
Like picking a career or a movie, cells have to make decisions – and cancer results from cells making…
Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have discovered a treatment-resistant prostate cancer that resembles small-cell lung cancer rather than typical prostate cancer and may suggest new treatments.
Public health, policy, government and trade experts discussed Ebola's social and economic impacts on affected countries in Africa at a Nov. 10 roundtable on campus.
Cornell's Department of Biomedical Engineering has received $700,000 from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to help train Ph.D. students to work at the interface of engineering science and medicine. (Aug. 9, 2010)
Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine and at the American Museum of Natural History have assembled the first complete genome of one of humanity's oldest and least-loved companions: the bedbug.
Cornell Cooperative Extension-New York City is helping elementary school children grow healthy produce to improve nutrition throughout the New York state. (Oct. 17, 2012)
Cornell veterinary student Emily Aston ’15 went into the heart of the Amazon to conduct the most remote study to date of the foodborne and waterborne pathogen Toxoplasma gondii.
For the first time, Cornell researchers have identified a key gene responsible for preventing the accumulation of misfolded proteins in cells, a disorder that underlies numerous diseases.