Life Sciences Newsletter: December 2007
Top Stories
- 3-D tumors help scientists understand cancer cell behavior
- Researchers prevent arrhythmias in mice by implanting embryonic heart cells into damaged cardiac tissue
- Weill Cornell clinical trial uses patients' own stem cells to repair their damaged hearts
- Cornell supports new doctoral program at University of Ghana to train African plant breeders
Health and Medicine
- Hormone from human urine may lead to safe treatment for high blood pressure
- A protein may be key to creating a vaccine for a deadly bacterial disease
- Cornell engineers develop a microvascular system to nourish engineered tissue for transplants
Food
- Cornell symposia address the worsening food and health crisis in sub-Saharan Africa
- Cornell helps lead international consortia to develop a pest-resistant eggplant in South Asia
- New eggplant “a boon” to India's stagnating agriculture, says Tamil Nadu university official
Sustainability and Environment
- New Center for Sustainability is building momentum across campus
- Faculty and students look to bring climate neutrality into the curriculum
- Cornell researchers explore grasses as biofuels
- Plants hold potential to clean up polluted soils
- Natural amino-acid herbicide in lawn grass variety controls weeds
- Breakthrough in understanding how plants perceive and respond to light
Research and Discoveries
- Small amino acid variation could have lethal effect in horses
- Plant pathologists uncover the agent that triggers immune response in plants
- Harnessing sperm power for nano-robots
- Supercomputers help scientists discover 300 new human genes
- Fruit flies provide clues to human genetic adaptation and immune system evolution