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In brain evolution, size matters -- most of the time

5/10/2017 by : Krishna Ramanujan , Cornell Chronicle

The findings uncover a principle that may also help explain human evolution.

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Four Cornell students win 2017 Truman, Udall scholarships

4/21/2017 by : Krishna Ramanujan , Cornell Chronicle

Celina Scott-Buechler is studying how human-made forces drive change in marine coral reef systems.

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Grant explores using seminal fluid proteins to control mosquitos

3/16/2017 by : Krishna Ramanujan , Cornell Chronicle

The spread of mosquito-borne viruses, including dengue, chikungunya and Zika, has created a public health crisis that poses risks to nearly 4 billion people living in 120 countries.

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New host-microbe institute connects campus researchers

1/19/2017 by : Krishna Ramanujan , Cornell Chronicle

Research areas cover beneficial and pathogenic interactions between hosts (plants and animals) and microbes (bacteria, viruses and fungi).

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$1.3M NIH grant funds brain development, cancer research

8/23/2016 by : Krishna Ramanujan , Cornell Chronicle

Researchers will seek to uncover fundamental processes in brain development and their links to brain cancers with a new grant.

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Right or left? Study shows how zebrafish answer key question

8/9/2016 by : Krishna Ramanujan , Cornell Chronicle

Very little is known about the wiring of nerve cells in the brain that allow a fish, or any animal, to make fundamental choices to move to the left or to the right. A study of zebrafish larvae published Aug. 9 in the journal eLife for the first time reveals a circuit that determines the direction of a lightning-quick turn to escape a predator.

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Male frogs have sex on land to keep competitors away

7/26/2016 by : Krishna Ramanujan , Cornell Chronicle

When it comes to the birds and the bees, frogs are remarkably diverse: They do it in water, on land and on leaves.

Researchers have assumed that natural selection drove frogs to take the evolutionary step to reproduce on land as a way for parents to avoid aquatic predators who feed on the eggs and tadpoles.

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Infectious disease experts join forces, host global meeting

6/2/2016 by : Krishna Ramanujan , Cornell Chronicle

In recent years, Cornell has amassed an impressive stable of experts in an emerging field for modern times: The ecology and evolution of infectious disease.

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Four elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

4/21/2016 by : Krishna Ramanujan , Cornell Chronicle

Four Cornell faculty members. including two from the College of Arts & Sciences, are among 213 national and international scholars, artists, philanthropists and business leaders elected new fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Study: Some frogs are adapting to deadly pathogen

4/8/2016 by : Krishna Ramanujan , Cornell Chronicle

Some populations of frogs are rapidly adapting to a fungal pathogen calledBatrachochrytrium dendrobatridis (Bd) that has decimated many populations for close to half a century and causes the disease chytridiomycosis, according to a new study.

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Wild honeybees offer clues on preventing colony collapse

3/31/2016 by : Krishna Ramanujan , Cornell Chronicle

Over the past decades, millions of managed colonies of honeybees have died from varroa mites that transmit deadly viruses, yet wild colonies survive.

Cornell researchers describe – in the March 11 issue of the journal PLoS One –experiments that help reveal how wild colonies endure mites and pathogens.

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Study explores new tool for genome editing

2/26/2016 by : Krishna Ramanujan , Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell discovery could lead to more specific and accurate gene editing.

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Zebrafish brains open doors to all brains

11/17/2015 by : Krishna Ramanujan , Cornell Chronicle

Neurobiologist Joe Fetcho's research helps us understand how brain circuits produce behaviors.

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Professor Jesse Goldberg wins NIH 'new innovator' award

10/21/2015 by : Krishna Ramanujan , Cornell Chronicle

Three young Cornell researchers have won National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Awards. Part of the NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program, the awards provide up to $1.5 million over five years for innovative, high-impact projects.

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New gene drive technology evokes hopes and fears

10/1/2015 by : Krishna Ramanujan , Cornell Chronicle

The idea of introducing a novel gene into a few individuals that then spreads through an entire population sounds like a premise for science fiction. And yet fiction can be prophetic.
Cornell researchers have used mathematical models to illuminate the promises – and potential problems – of a new genome editing mechanism, called a gene drive.

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William Provine, history of science scholar, dies at 73

9/9/2015 by : Krishna Ramanujan , Cornell Chronicle

William Provine, the Andrew H. and James L. Tisch Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Cornell, died Sept. 1 due to complications from a brain tumor at his home in Horseheads, New York. He was 73.

Provine, a professor of the history of biology in the departments of History and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, was born Feb. 19, 1942, in Nashville, Tennessee.

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3-D scans of mating fruit flies uncover female biology

6/26/2015 by : Krishna Ramanujan , Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have used cutting-edge X-ray technology to noninvasively image fruit flies during and after mating.

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To hunt and eat, bats listen for signals in prey mating calls

5/28/2015 by : Krishna Ramanujan , Cornell Chronicle

Researchers find that bats listen in on katydid mating calls to locate their next meal.