Klondike is a Beagle-Laborador Retriever mix that was flash-frozen and transplanted into a surrogate mother. This successful procedure could impact canine conservation efforts.
Prof. Amy McCune, evolutionary biology and ecology, Sarah Longo ’11 and Mark Riccio, director of Cornell’s Multiscale Computed Tomography Facility, have uncovered proof that lungs and fish gas bladders are evolutionarily linked.
Douglas Shire ’89 is currently working in a Cornell laboratory to develop a retinal implant that he hopes will allow blind individuals to see light, color and even movement by the end of the year.
Starting in fall 2012, Cornell’s biology department will offer a new concentration in marine biology. Prof. Ian Hewson, microbiology, assistant director of the Shoals Marine Lab, said the concentration will give new opportunities to students interested in sustainability and conservation.
According to researchers at Kent State University, ophidiophobia, otherwise known as the fear of snakes, is one of the seven most common phobias in the United States. Some scientists, however, seek to learn more about these commonly misunderstood animals. Jessica Tingle ’12, a biological sciences major, travelled over 8,000 miles away to study a little-known snake living deep in the Petriky Forest.
A Cornell study published Friday in the journal Science used Twitter to study changes in peoples’ moods, discovering that seasonal variations in day length affect people in similar ways across cultures, indicating there is an underlying biological rhythm at work.
In front of a packed Statler Auditorum Thursday, one of the world’s most renowned biologists, Dr. J. Craig Venter, discussed his research in creating life from machines in the field of synthetic genomics.
Although it is widely known that many cells are polarized, the mechanism by which this polarity is manifested is not very well understood. In research recently published in Developmental Cell, University researchers are beginning to elucidate these mechanisms.
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