The discovery by a Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College scientist that poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1) plays a pivotal role in gene transcription could open doors to new therapies for cancer and neurological disease, and even hints at connections between the foods we eat and gene expression within our cells.
Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman of the board and CEO of General Electric Co., the world's most profitable industrial company, will give the 2004 Hatfield address, April 15 at 4:30 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall on the Cornell University campus. There will be overflow seating, and closed-circuit television viewing of the talk, in PepsiCo Auditorium, 305 Ives Hall. The talk is free and open to the public. (April 8, 2004)
Donald P. Gregg, U.S. ambassador to Korea (1989-93) during the George H.W. Bush administration and chairman of the Korea Society, will deliver the 2004 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellowship Lecture at Cornell.
Five individuals who have dedicated their lives to feeding and housing the homeless will participate in a lecture series this spring at Cornell. The lecture series is part of Cornell's Housing and Feeding the Homeless Program, which began in 1988.
NEW YORK (December 29, 2004) -- In any bioterror attack, vaccines that provide a rapid, effective defense against the pathogen will be key to saving lives.However, in the case of anthrax, vaccines available today can take weeks or even months to gain full effect.
New York, NY (May 14, 2003) -- A breakthrough new laser procedure is a safe and effective treatment for the most common ailment experienced by men over the age of 50, Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) or enlargement of the prostate. Almost half of all men over 50 experience some symptoms related to BPH, a condition where the prostate increases in size, gradually pinching the urethra, leading to a host of uncomfortable and painful symptoms.--As one of six clinical research study sites, and the only site in the New York City metropolitan area, the Weill Cornell Brady Prostate Center investigated the new procedure, Photoselective Vaporization of the Prostate (PVP), finding significant and immediate reduction in symptoms (23.9 percent to 2.6 percent) and prostate volume (55.1g to 30.3g) with all patients discharged within 23 hours without significant complications. The study's findings were presented at the recent American Urological Association meeting in Chicago.
We all know of great scholars, said President Hunter Rawlings at the Beacon Theatre on Manhattan's Upper West Side. And we all know of great teachers. But to find in one person, Walter LaFeber, the greatest of scholars and of teachers, he continued -- that is a remarkable thing.
Landing a spot in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's list, Top 10 Universities Receiving Most Patents in 2003, did not surprise technology-transfer specialists at Cornell Research Foundation (CRF).
Ten major locations throughout the middle Atlantic region and the Northeastern United States have set snowfall records this week, shattering record snowfall amounts set during the last 'Storm of the Century' in March 1993, according to climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.