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People sitting on a hillside

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Through wind and dust

by : Colton Poore , Cornell Research

"There is something cathartic about smashing rocks on a hillside, miles away from civilization, in pursuit of fossils. Each swing of the hand-pick uncovers part of a mystery. A crack forms, then deepens, and suddenly the rock splits open—to reveal a fossil or reveal nothing. A fossil is set aside. An empty rock is tossed down the hillside. The process repeats—onto the next rock."That's the…

Fernandez in lab

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What’s all the talk about Sirtuins?

by : Colton Poore

“Genotyping mice, collecting tumors, weighing tumors, it’s a lot of what I do,” says Irma Fernandez—a third-year graduate student in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology at Cornell whose work is featured in this Cornell Research story. “I work on one of the more unusual projects in my lab." Mirroring the uniqueness of her project, Fernandez’s status as a graduate student is also distinctive…