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Goldwin Smith Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics in the College of Arts and Sciences Wolfner’s research focuses on understanding the important reproductive processes that occur around the time when a sperm fertilizes an egg at the molecular/gene level, and her lab uses the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, for most of its work. Many…
Earlier this year, a video went viral about a man, Eric O’Grey, and his dog, Peety. The video celebrates the love between people and their pets, but for Eric and Peety, it is much more. According to NPR, who picked up the story in March, the duo helped save each…
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Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine Laboratory focus on genomic investigation of dogs as a model of genetic disease and evolutionary genetics Find his full bio here.
Taking a One Health Approach to Public Health A Brief History of One Health One Health is a term used to describe the collective health of people, animals, and the environment in which we live, and speaks specifically to the effect each element has on the health of the others.…
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Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine Laboratory focus in the etiology and treatment of obesity, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes Graduate field memberships in Comparative Biomedical Sciences and Molecular and Integrative Physiology Find her full bio here.
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International Professor of Plant Breeding and Director of International Programs of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Coffman also serves as Principal Investigator of the Agricultural Innovation Partnership, the Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat project, Driving Genetic Gain in Wheat project and the Next Generation Cassava project. He serves as…
As the global population grows and human innovations abound, the world becomes a smaller yet more complex place. With sufficient resources, one can get to almost any point in the world in some 48 hours. With this mobility, ideas and commerce move rapidly. Along with them, infections and vectors of…
Bruce Calnek, DVM ’55, the Steffen Professor Emeritus of Veterinary Medicine, and Karel Schat, Ph.D. ’78, professor emeritus in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology were awarded the 2015 Ezra Technology Innovator Award for their work as inventors of the Marek’s disease vaccine. Cornell patented the SB-1 strain that Calnek and…
Alex Travis, associate professor of reproductive biology in the Baker Institute for Animal Health in Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine, and other Cornell researchers succeeded in producing the first litter of puppies through in vitro fertilization. This is not only a significant breakthrough in terms of reproductive technology, but also…