Entrepreneurs talk about disruption, growth and the power of AI

Cornell entrepreneurs shared wisdom, advice and ideas during Eclectic Convergence 2023 at Cornell Tech in New York City.

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Researchers chart the contents of human bone marrow

A team at Weill Cornell Medicine has mapped the location and spatial features of blood-forming cells within human bone marrow, confirming hypotheses about the anatomy of this tissue and providing a powerful new means to study diseases that affect bone marrow.  

Student entrepreneurs pitch ideas at Cornell Tech event

The pitch competition also gave the 26 teams in eLab a chance to meet alumni, students and venture capitalists.

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Absorbable scaffold beats angioplasty for lower-leg artery disease

In patients with severe artery blockage in the lower leg, an artery-supporting device called a resorbable scaffold is superior to angioplasty, according to the results of a large international clinical trial co-led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian.

Triangle Fire history preserved by ILR’s Kheel Center

Steps from where dozens of young immigrant Jewish and Italian women died when a fire erupted in the locked sweatshop, 60 Cornell students, faculty, staff and alumni gathered Oct. 11 to honor the legacy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory tragedy.

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Drug screen points toward novel diabetes treatments

A drug currently in clinical trials as a cancer therapy can also stimulate pancreatic beta cells to secrete insulin, revealing a previously unknown mechanism for insulin regulation in Type 2 diabetes, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

New strategy attacks treatment-resistant lymphomas

Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators discover a surprising mechanism that makes some cancers resistant to treatment.

U.S. Secretary of transportation encourages students to participate in local politics

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg provided an intimate look at the most pressing issues in federal infrastructure planning during a conversation on November 2 with students and faculty members from the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.

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Cornell Bowers CIS researchers bring home awards from CSCW

Research on the role of hope in community work, online support groups and moderating online communities received awards at the 2023 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing.

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