Before a cell commits fully to the process of dividing itself into two new cells, it may ensure the appropriateness of its commitment by staying for many hours – sometimes more than a day – in a reversible intermediate state, according to new research.
Home health aides are vulnerable to stress, isolation and depressive symptoms, which impact their own health as well as their patients’ desire to age in place, according new research.
Households in Cambodia caught and consumed a far more diverse array of fish than they sold at market, highlighting how biodiversity loss might affect people’s nutrition, especially for those with lower incomes.
A team led by Dr. Samie Jaffrey, the Greenberg-Starr Professor of Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded a three-year, $1.65 million grant for RNA research under a biotechnology-development program run by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have used machine learning to define three subtypes of Parkinson’s disease based on the pace at which the disease progresses.
Women are at higher risk of death when undergoing heart bypass surgery than men, and researchers have determined that this disparity is mediated, to a large extent, by the loss of red blood cells during surgery.
A clinical trial led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators showed that a nasal spray that patients administer at home, without a physician, successfully and safely treated recurrent episodes of a condition that causes rapid abnormal heart rhythms.
Scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed new AI tools tailored to digital pathology, a growing field that uses high-resolution digital images created from tissue samples to help diagnose disease.
One in five of the bacterial strains that cause typhoid fever have genetic variations in their external layer, called Vi capsule, that provide higher virulence, higher infectivity and high antibiotic resistance, Cornell researchers have discovered.