Cornell is playing a major role in a research and education project that seeks to develop perennial feedstock production systems and supply chains for shrub willow and warm-season grasses. (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.
Findings about male mosquito proteins could eventually lead to new ways to control the female mosquitoes that spread the dengue and yellow fever viruses. (March 16, 2011)
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.
Cornell University Genetically Engineered Machines has designed and built a biosensor that uses an electroactive bacterial species to detect the toxic substances arsenic and naphthalene in water. (Oct. 2, 2012)
Researchers and farm managers at Cornell orchards decided to let wild bees, rather than honeybees, pollinate Cornell's apples this year - a gamble that seems to have paid off.
University delegates returned a rare collection of fungi to China Nov. 7, 70 years after it was smuggled out of the country and brought to Cornell for safekeeping. (Nov. 12, 2009)