While dogs keep dying from eating pet food tainted with aflatoxin, Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine is announcing it has developed protein tests that accurately indicate a dog's liver failure caused by the toxin.
CherryPharm Inc., a start-up company that sells an all-natural, tart cherry sports drink developed in conjunction with Cornell food scientists, has received $2.3 million from the Cayuga Venture Fund. (June 19, 2007)
How you plate food for kids matters, reports a study in Acta Paediatrica. Children are most attracted to food plates with seven different items and six colors; adults prefer only three of each. (Jan. 5, 2012)
In rural areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America, poor farmers supplement their livelihoods by hunting and cutting wood, but such practices seriously threaten biodiversity in the developing world. (Aug. 22, 2011)
Cornell has developed a new test for Lyme disease in horses and dogs that pinpoints the time of infection, which will result in earlier intervention and more effective treatment.
The Dairy Bar's mascots, a fiberglass cow and calf, were stolen in August 2006; the cow was returned to the Hoy Field pitcher's mound in late November that year. (April 1, 2010)
As staffers hired by Cornell's Lab of Ornithology and volunteers gear up for a six-month search for the ivory-billed woodpecker, residents of Brinkley, Ark., may be wondering why it is so hard to find. (December 14, 2005)
The institute is reinventing itself into a cutting-edge, research-focused organization to support projects at the boundaries of nanoscale imaging and control. (March 23, 2010)
A deadly fish virus has been found for the first time in a variety of freshwater fish in the northeastern United States by Cornell University researchers. (June 14, 2006)
A sort of 'mini-MOOC' - massive open online course - in infant and child nutrition has attracted almost 4,000 participants from more than 100 countries.