New York, NY (February 13, 2003) -- A team headed by a Weill Cornell Medical College scientist has shown that a virus-inhibiting antibody applied vaginally as a topical microbicide can prevent SHIV infection in a monkey model. A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study provides evidence that microbicides can prevent virus attachment and entry into the vagina and its associated tissues, a useful step in the development of an effective method to prevent the spread of HIV.Published in the March issue of Nature Medicine, the study shows that monkeys treated with a monoclonal antibody microbicide, called b12, were significantly less likely to be infected with SHIV (an engineered simian-human version of human HIV) via the vaginal route than untreated monkeys exposed to the virus (25 percent versus 92 percent). Additionally, a greater dosage of b12, in gel or saline form, resulted in a greater ability to block infection.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees has approved a recommendation to create e-Cornell, a legally separate but Cornell-controlled for-profit company to create and market distance learning programs.
More than a dozen students at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations will be bound for Ireland next fall to inaugurate a semester abroad program at University College Dublin's Quinn School of Business. (March 14, 2007)
Following the media uproar over a scientist in Illinois who says he will try to begin human cloning soon, a Cornell professor participated in an Internet discussion Wednesday (Jan. 7) to debunk and denounce the effort.
Richard Schechner, founder of the performance studies department at New York University, will conduct theater classes and performances on and off the Cornell campus during his visit as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.
About 80 anxious callers a week contact Cornell's Lab of Ornithology with questions about avian influenza and the possibility of the virus arriving in the United States via migratory birds.
A steady trickle of calls and e-mails…
Some of the neediest children in Tompkins County will have real reason to believe in Santa Claus this year, thanks to the work of a group of Cornell University "elves."
Best-selling novelist and astrophysicist Alan Lightman read from two of his books during a Feb. 20-21 visit to campus. His works straddle the arts and sciences. (March 2, 2011)