Scientists associated with the Cornell University Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) in Biotechnology have received a U.S. patent on an immune cell receptor protein that is believed to be the site of infection for the virus that causes AIDS.
Scientists associated with the Cornell's Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) in Biotechnology have received a U.S. patent on an immune cell receptor protein that is believed to be the site of infection for the virus that causes AIDS.
Add this universal truth to biology textbooks: the mass of a plant's leaves and stems is proportionally scaled to that of its roots in a mathematically predictable way, regardless of species or habitat. In other words, biologists can now reasonably estimate how much biomass is underground just by looking at the stems and leaves above ground. Up to now, plant biologists could only theorize about the ways stem and leaf biomass relate to root biomass across the vast spectrum of land plants. Researchers from Cornell University and the University of Arizona spent two years poring over data for a vast array of plants -- from weeds to bushes to trees -- in order to derive mass-proportional relations among major plant parts. (February 19, 2002)
Rachel P. Maines, an independent scholar who is employed as a technical processor in the Nestle Library in Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, is the recipient of this year's Herbert Feis Prize in recognition.
An address by Jackson Katz, founder and director of MVP Strategies Inc., an organization that provides gender violence prevention training and materials to the U.S. military services, colleges, high schools, law enforcement agencies, community organizations and corporations, will highlight activities during Health Awareness Week on the Cornell.
Cornell University alumni and friends gave the university a single-year record of $219.8 million in the fiscal year ending June 30, President Hunter Rawlings announced today (Wednesday, Oct. 23).
A team of Cornell scientists, aided by a $837,000 Microbial Observatory grant from the National Science Foundation, is going after methane-generating bacteria and other microbes.
The fungus responsible for the legendary Irish potato famine of the last century is staging a strong resurgence and scientists want to fight back. Researchers from Poland, Russia, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada, Peru, Mexico and the United States will gather in Ithaca on Oct. 7 and 8 at Cornell University to discuss the problem and how to fight it.
It's a constitutional given that the nine justices of the nation's highest court are appointed for life. But Cornell law professor Roger Cramton is asking: Should they be?
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University astronomers have been awarded a $2.1 million grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop and build an infrared camera called FORCAST, which will be among the main instruments aboard the space agency's newest airborne observatory. FORCAST, which stands for Faint Object infraRed CAmera for the SOFIA Telescope, will be designed to image the regions of the universe visible in the infrared. It will fly aboard an airborne observatory known as the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA. The first official flight of the special observatory is scheduled for July 2001.