Cornell researchers have created new DNA molecules that can detect pathogens and deliver drugs to cells when they form long chains called polymers. (May 19, 2009)
Two delegations of Cornell faculty traveled to Sweden this fall to plant seeds for future collaborations. One group of nine Cornell faculty members from five departments participated in a Nov. 10-12 symposium at Stockholm University.
As director of the Institute for Biotechnology and Life Sciences Technologies, Jocelyn Rose will promote and enhance research and infrastructure associated with life sciences at Cornell. (Feb. 1, 2010)
Michael I. Kotlikoff, the Austin O. Hooey Dean of Veterinary Medicine since 2007, will be Cornell University's 16th provost, President Elizabeth Garrett announced today. Kotlikoff will assume the office Aug. 1.
Cornell ushers in a new era of disease diagnosis and prevention Oct. 1 with the opening of the state-of-the-art New York State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory to monitor human and animal disease. (Sept. 29, 2010)
Richard Korf, a professor emeritus of mycology who has traveled to nearly every continent to collect fungi, was awarded the Ainsworth Medal for outstanding contributions to international mycology. (Sept. 27, 2010)
The zone of overlap between two popular, closely related backyard birds is moving northward at a rate that matches warming winter temperatures, a new study finds.
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.