Anxiety, avoidance and a heightened response to stress can be transmitted from mother to child by multiple nongenetic mechanisms, a new study by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine shows.
Alex Bancroft, 9, suffers from Chron's disease but has found answers from Weill Cornell Medicine pediatric gastroenterologist Dr. Thomas Ciecierega, an associate professor of pediatrics.
In the second season of the Inside Medicine online video series, Weill Cornell Medicine chronicles three stories emblematic of the institution’s dedication to translational research.
Three leaders from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will serve on a new commission addressing domestic and global food security challenges and ensuring universal food security by 2050.
A Cornell-led study published May 11 in the journal Cell Host & Microbe provides the strongest evidence yet that human DNA influences the type and number of bacteria that reside in each person’s gut.
Cornell researchers have found no evidence to suggest that the risks of a mother potentially transmitting the virus to her child via breastfeeding outweigh the benefits of breastfeeding, though they caution that more study is necessary.
Smoking tobacco – even lightly – through water pipes significantly affects lung function and biology in young adults, a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers shows.
