A Cornell Tech professor has won a competition that tasked researchers with creating a method to align the connectomes — aka neural connection maps — of male and female fruit flies.
Knocking out a single gene reprograms part of the large intestine to function like the nutrient-absorbing small intestine; Weill Cornell investigators showed that this reversed the malnutrition that results when most of the small intestine is removed.
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.
A team with Cornell statisticians has develop a way to handle and simplify large data sets more efficiently than traditional methods, for when big data gets too big.
Cornell researchers have identified a pair of key neurological mechanisms in the brain – a cell type and receptor – that enable the psychedelic compound’s long-lasting effects.
In his new book, Calum MacNeill Carmichael draws detailed parallels between the 14 parables unique to Luke’s gospel and Genesis stories about figures such as Jacob and Esau.
As students in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy examined the complexities of U.S. refugee policy in Senior Lecturer Julie Ficarra’s class, Refugee Pathways and Resettlement Policy (PUBPOL 3050/5050) last fall, they grappled with difficult potential scenarios now unfolding in real time as a result of the Trump Administration’s pause of the refugee resettlement program.
Thanks to a research partnership between Embark Veterinary and the College of Veterinary Medicine, DNA tests also provide findings that could improve dogs’ health.
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.
Run by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, the fund delivered payments and provided support to growers who planted cover crops and reduced tillage on nearly 15,000 acres in western and central New York.
