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Bryce Brownfield, Ph.D. ’23 (left) and Cameron Kitzinger ’22 work in their lab for Forage Evolution, which was recently admitted into Cornell’s Center for Life Science Ventures incubator.
Researchers develop a new bacterium that can absorb DNA directly from its surroundings and incorporate it into its own genetic code.
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Quantera founder Terry Bates, Ph.D. ’23, explains the operation of the startup's spectrometer to undergraduate interns Nick DeMayo ’26 and Alexis Sherman ’26, both from Cornell Engineering.
Newly admitted into the Praxis Center business incubator, Quantera aims to improve scientific sample collection.
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Enslavers posted as many as a quarter-million newspaper ads and flyers before 1865 to locate runaway slaves. Ed Baptist is leading the public crowdsourcing project, Freedom on the Move, that has digitized tens of thousands of these advertisements in an open-source site accessible to the public.
Expansion of the Child Tax Credit gives researchers a unique example of a universally praised social good that disproportionately benefited some populations.
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Gerry Monaghan is an unofficial tender of Sagan’s grave at Lake View Cemetery in Ithaca, stopping by to tidy the astronomer's gravesite and those of his parents, buried nearby.
