Given the monumental task of completing the most ambitious project in Cornell's history -- the $650 million New Life Sciences Initiative -- it makes sense that decision makers would want all the help they could get. One unique source of wisdom comes from the External Life Sciences Advisory Council, a blue-ribbon team of five scientific leaders from prominent institutions around the country. With insights on advances in the sciences, the team has the expertise to address subject areas within the biological sciences offered at Cornell. They also complement a local Cornell faculty group, the Internal Life Sciences Advisory Council.
A conference titled "Hollywood vs. Babelsberg: Nazi Entertainment Films" on Saturday, Jan. 27, at Cornell will explore the politics of film in the Third Reich within the broader context of an emerging entertainment industry.
New York, NY (February 25, 2004) -- Within minutes of a stroke or other brain injury, neurons begin to die, a process that is followed by a cascade of further cell death, due in part to proteins released from injured cells. These proteins tell surrounding, healthy cells to die, a process termed apoptosis. These events occur over several days and may be more devastating than the original injury.Now, Weill Cornell Medical College researchers, working together with a team of researchers from Europe, have shed light on the proteins in healthy neurons that receive the apoptotic messages. In a study published in the journal Nature, they report the discovery that Sortilin, a protein whose function has been incompletely understood, plays a key role in conveying the message of apoptosis. Sortilin is a cell surface receptor, a protein that receives signals from outside the cell to modify the cell's behavior.
NEW YORK (March 22, 2005) -- The discovery by Weill Medical College of Cornell University researchers that a specific type of human fetal stem cell can co-differentiate simultaneously into both muscle and blood vessel cells may unlock the door to therapies that replace damaged tissue in the heart and other organs.Heart attack and other events can destroy cardiac muscle and the surrounding vasculature (blood vessels), so effective heart repair requires concurrent replacement of both these types of tissues.
The first in a series of articles about the four-decade legacy of the 36-hour student takeover of Willard Straight Hall that began April 18, 1969. (April 16, 2009)
Cornell scientists have confirmed what they believe is the first known infestation of an Asian long-horned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis, a large beetle that is attacking Brooklyn's horsechestnut and Norway maple tree population.
Almost 600 high school juniors and seniors will trade in a summer of work or sun-and-surf for the academic demands of Cornell's Summer College -- the nation's oldest such program, now in its 36th year -- which begins June 28. "The attraction here is to test the waters in an Ivy League institution, to get credit and to practice going to college before beginning freshman year," said Summer College Director Abby Eller.
NEW YORK (Dec. 7, 2005) -- Turning a corner in the history of cancer research, a Weill Medical College of Cornell University team, led by Dr. David Lyden, has pinpointed key players in "pre-metastasis" -- cells and compounds that coalesce in tumor-specific niches before the arrival of cancer cells to create the "fertile ground" metastasis needs to spread and grow. The research is being published in the Dec. 8 issue of Nature.
Wildlife preservationists have been successful enough in rescuing species from the brink of extinction that some of their methods should be applied to protecting children, says a Cornell University expert.
Donations of leftovers by restaurants to food pantries and other human service agencies are declining markedly as restaurants become better managed, according to a study by Cornell's School of Hotel Administration.