Researcher Brian Lazzaro uses insights from insect immunity to discuss how two competing immune system models may in fact be compatible. (April 6, 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…
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)
Cornell and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute have teamed up to offer a new shared doctoral program that will train the next generation of wildlife conservation scientists. (Oct. 26, 2011)
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.
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)