Investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered precisely how certain types of cancers spread to particular organs in the body, supporting the century-old "seed and soil" theory of metastasis.
English professor Molly Hite and garden photographer David McDonald presented 'Literature, Life, Gardens: The Influence of Vita Sackville-West' Aug. 24. (Aug. 31, 2011)
Though biofuels from algae hold great promise, Cornell researchers find that more innovation is needed to make the technology economically and energetically viable at a commercial scale.
Five Cornell students and one faculty member recently made presentations at a major international food aid meeting in Rome that have people in Washington and elsewhere in the world taking notice. (March 1, 2012)
With projections of 9.5 billion people by 2050, humankind faces the challenge of feeding modern diets to additional mouths while using the same amounts of water, fertilizer and arable land as today.
A new study shows that the lack of a certain gene plays a role in some 60,000 breast cancer patients in the United States and 383,000 worldwide. (Aug. 14, 2012)