Research findings suggest that women who took hormones in midlife to treat their menopause symptoms were less likely to develop dementia than those who hadn’t taken estrogen.
Prominent physician, author and health services researcher Martin Shapiro will speak at an event on the Ithaca campus. He will describe steps to reform the health care system and lead a discussion that is open to all.
Collaboration was the theme of the evening at the second annual Community Engagement Awards, held April 16 and hosted by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement to celebrate excellence in local and global university-community partnerships.
Cathy Garzio, a distinguished academic medicine administrator, has been appointed executive vice provost and chief operating officer of Weill Cornell Medicine, effective early February.
Fungal biologist Lori Huberman will use a $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how fungi sense and use nutrients, basic research with potential applications for treatment of cancer, obesity, Type 2 diabetes and fungal infections.
Cornell researchers have harnessed the power of baker’s yeast to create a cost-effective and highly efficient approach for unraveling how plants synthesize medicinal compounds, and they have used the new method to identify key enzymes in a kratom tree.
A new filtration process that aims to extend milk’s shelf life may result in a pasteurization-resistant microbacterium passing into milk if equipment isn’t properly cleaned early, Cornell scientists say.
Over 10 weeks, 22 teams of would-be entrepreneurs developed products ranging from multilingual children's toys to innovative greenhouse hoops for small-scale farmers.
Deborah Fowell, professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the College of Veterinary Medicine, has received a five-year, $2.32 million MERIT award from the NIH to study the factors that help guide immune cells.