1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (636+ words) Cornell researchers have developed a lightweight wireless device that can record brain activity from animals moving freely in natural environments, giving scientists a new way to study behavior that has been difficult or impossible to reproduce in laboratories. The device,…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (278+ words) University of Rochester researchers have found that a protein long associated with chronic inflammation and aging may also play an important protective role, complicating efforts to target it in therapies for age-related disease. The protein, known as cGAS, can detect…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (363+ words) Evolutionary cell biologist Edgar Medina Tovar will join Cornell University's Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology this month to study how fungi evolved and how pathogenic species cause disease. Medina Tovar will begin as an assistant research professor before…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (252+ words) Cornell neuroscientists found that mice use nearly separate groups of brainstem neurons for social ultrasonic calls and the audible squeaks associated with distress or fighting. The study, published Aug. 17 in eNeuro, examined the nucleus retroambiguus, a brainstem region near the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (164+ words) A Cornell-led research team has developed a method for mapping protein interactions inside cancer cells, uncovering a previously overlooked protein that helps stabilize a major factor in tumor growth. The team tested the method in three prostate cancer cell lines....