In March, students participating in the Cornell in Washington program teamed up with international students in Muscat, Oman, to find solutions to global health security.
No one has fully understood why diabetes remission often follows bariatric surgery, but a recent Cornell-led study provides clues to the mystery. The findings open doors for novel drug treatments to treat Type 2 diabetes.
Soumya Gupta, Ph.D ‘15, an expert studying the intersection of agriculture, nutrition and women’s status in India, is the winner of the inaugural Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in Field Research.
Minimally Invasive New Technologies Program (MINT) at Weill Cornell Medical College teamed with entrepreneurs to establish Lumendi, a start-up producing endoscopic tools for gastrointestinal surgery.
Combining genetic information from tumor cells with 3-D cell cultures grown from these tumors, and rapidly screening approved drugs, can identify the best treatment approaches in patients.
Weill Cornell Medicine doctoral candidates Kaitlyn Gayvert and Neel Madhukar have been named to Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30” list of young change agents in 20 professional fields.
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.
A new study finds that softening the lighting and music in fast food restaurants resulted in diners consuming 18 percent fewer calories. (Aug. 29, 2012)
Cornell biomedical engineers have found natural triggers that can override developmental, biological miscues – research that could reduce the chance of congenital heart defects.