The Cornell Maple Program is growing 18 species of perennial fruit- and nut-bearing plants within a maple sugarbush forest. They want to help maple producers be more resilient to economic challenges and extreme weather events, and offer unique products like maple-elderberry wine and maple-hazelnut spreads.
When Fig was suddenly lethargic and wouldn’t eat one day, his owner knew something was amiss and rushed him to the Cornell University Hospital for Animals.
The same protein accumulates in the joints of both dogs and humans after ACL injury, which means using dogs as a model for study may vastly accelerate advances in understanding of both ACL injury and post-traumatic osteoarthritis.
The WHO Pandemic Agreement directly addresses the risk of zoonotic spillovers — transmission of pathogens from animals to humans. With over a million undiscovered viruses in animal hosts, Raina Plowright and her colleagues urge swift action.
The Southern Ocean – between Antarctica and other continents – will eventually release heat absorbed from the atmosphere, leading to projected long-term increases in precipitation over East Asia and the Western U.S.
In response to dairy industry needs, a team of researchers found that avian flu persisted in raw milk for as long as eight weeks when refrigerated - but also that it did not survive pasteurization and even some subpasteurization temperatures.
William Boyle ’55, MBA ’56, has given a significant gift to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) to support renovations to the Plant Science Building.