Researchers developed a robotic version of a crash cart – a rolling storage cabinet stocked with medical supplies – to see if it can help out in unpredictable health care settings, like emergency and operating rooms.
Weill Cornell Medicine is dramatically expanding its campus and research footprint in New York City by securing five floors of 1334 York Ave., the current home of Sotheby's auction house.
With surprising frequency, patients with severe brain injury can show clear signs of cognitive function on brain scans in response to requests to carry out complex mental work, even when they can’t move or speak.
Researchers have discovered a link between two key pathways that regulate the immune system in mammals – a finding that impacts understanding of chronic inflammatory bowel diseases.
Cornell is one of four higher-education institutions in a new $12 million partnership with Google aimed at establishing New York City as the world leader in cybersecurity.
Professors Dr. Silvia Formenti and Dr. Massimo Loda have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, in recognition of outstanding professional achievement and major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences.
Krystyn J. Van Vliet has been named vice president for innovation and external engagement strategy, and Gary Koretzky ’78 will serve as interim vice provost for research.
Weill Cornell Medicine scientists have developed an innovative human neuron model that robustly simulates the spread of tau protein aggregates in the brain – a process that drives cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia.
Steps from where dozens of young immigrant Jewish and Italian women died when a fire erupted in the locked sweatshop, 60 Cornell students, faculty, staff and alumni gathered Oct. 11 to honor the legacy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory tragedy.