The Trump administration has canceled a nearly $600-million contract with Moderna that was intended to develop a vaccine for humans against bird flu. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA technology, which is used in the company’s shot.
Sorin Lerner, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, has been named dean of the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.
Cornell researchers developed a new way to safely heat up specific areas inside the body by using biodegradable polymers that contain tiny water pockets, a technology that could lead to precise and noninvasive diagnostics and therapeutics.
Staff members were honored at the 69th Annual Service Recognition Event, held June 2 in the Schurman Hall Atrium at the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Cornell geochemists and synthetic biologists have collaborated to improve the efficiency of microbes that can dissolve rocks to extract critical minerals while speeding carbon sequestration from air.
An international collaboration that includes Cornell researchers achieved a new level of precision in measuring the magnetic anomaly of the muon – a tiny, elusive particle that could have very big implications for understanding the subatomic world.
