Food Science Professor Julie Goddard’s research team has engineered unique enzymes to break down microplastics in sewage and wastewater, a major route of microplastic pollution into the environment.
An FDA-approved drug used in humans has been found to inhibit the growth of oral squamous cell carcinomas in dogs - with one dog’s tumor nearly disappearing in a matter of weeks.
Most pandemics in the past century were sparked by a pathogen jumping from animals to humans. This moment of zoonotic spillover is the focus of a multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Raina Plowright, the Rudolf J. and Katharine L. Steffen Professor in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Public and Ecosystem Health.
Through its new Public Health Essentials online certificate program, Cornell seeks to help leaders proactively address today’s global health challenges.
Researchers identified several families of "jumping genes," or transposons, in cyanobacteria and Streptomyces that can find and insert themselves at the telomere, with benefits for the transposon and their bacterial host.
The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Tim Barry ‘93, the chair and CEO of VillageMD, and this year’s Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year. Entrepreneurship at Cornell will honor Barry on April 11 and 12 during the Celebration event on campus.
Thanks to a research partnership between Embark Veterinary and the College of Veterinary Medicine, DNA tests also provide findings that could improve dogs’ health.
As part of the “CROPPS-in-a-Box” hackathon — an intensive, weeklong event hosted by the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems — students in engineering, computer science and plant biology collaborated to build a working prototype that could detect when a plant is in distress.
A tiny eukaryotic organism provided inspiration for modeling “traveling networks” – connected systems that move by rearranging their structure. Understanding these networks may help explain the behavior of certain biological systems and human organizations.