A quick, inexpensive and highly sensitive test that identifies disease markers or other molecules in low-concentration solutions could be the result of a Cornell-developed nanomechanical biosensor.
Two delegations of Cornell faculty traveled to Sweden this fall to plant seeds for future collaborations. One group of nine Cornell faculty members from five departments participated in a Nov. 10-12 symposium at Stockholm University.
The Cornell Institute for Biology Teachers hosted 38 high school students from Syracuse April 9 for a campus visit and other science activities, including packing DNA from their cheeks.
UltrOZ Elite Therapy System is a wearable, therapeutic ultrasound system for horses.The technology was developed by George Lewis, a Cornell medical ultrasound researcher and former graduate student. (June 1, 2011)
Cornell researcher offers evidence of marine infectious diseases in coral, abalone and oysters, for example, and cases of forecasting and mitigation for those diseases.
New Cornell research for the first time finds nonlinear calls in a fish species, similar to those observed in the reproductive, territorial and distress calls of mammals, amphibians and birds.
Researchers have discovered that many of the shark’s proteins involved in an array of different functions – including metabolism – match humans most closely than they do zebrafish, the quintessential fish model.
Learning how many weeds adapt to climate change could provide valuable information to inform ecological strategies, reports a study that analyzed four weed species that are spreading northward.
While most studies of gene expression focus on activities in the cell's nucleus, a new Cornell study finds that processes outside the nucleus also play important roles in gene expression. (May 23, 2011)