A new study at Cornell has identified two key proteins that cancer cells need to travel and have uncovered a pathway that treatments could block to keep cancer from spreading. (Feb. 21, 2012)
Extension educators in New York City are changing the way that people at mosques, senior centers and soup kitchens eat by giving free nutrition workshops and sidewalk education.
Chemical codes that control the behavior of normal and malignant cells have been identified and may lead to more precise treatment for people with leukemia.
Three local siblings of different ages are all entering Cornell this fall, all with help from the SUNY's Educational Opportunity Program and the state's Higher Education Opportunity Program. (Aug. 22, 2011)
In a few months, nearly every home in Atima, Honduras, will have safe, clean drinking water, thanks to a treatment plant principally designed by Cornell engineering students. (Jan. 26, 2012)
The stacked rapid sand filter, developed by members of Cornell's AguaClara research team, could well be the reason that Tamara now has some of the best water in all of Honduras. (Jan. 26, 2012)
A new study helps untangle how marriage, gender and ethnicity are related to body weight. The study of almost 8,000 men and women will be published in the journal Obesity. (Dec. 1, 2009)
New genetic analysis holds promise to prevent dangerous pathogen Listeria, which kills 300 Americans each year. Food scientist Martin Widemann's research tested for the presence of several genes. (Jan. 11, 2011)
Some 93 million Americans do not have the numerical skills necessary to make well-informed decisions about their medical care, reports a Cornell professor, who has some suggestions on changing that. (Nov. 9, 2009)