Center for Technology Licensing program continues to fund early-stage Cornell lab innovations

Eight projects have been selected from the Fall 2023 application cycle to receive Ignite Innovation Acceleration grants. The grants are designed to help project teams pursue licensing, form startups, and forge industry collaborations.

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Cornell Feline Health Center launches playful CatGPT

Feline-centric chatbot connects cat owners with credible, science-based information in a novel way. Users can ask the chatbot questions, get to the answers quickly and ask follow-up questions – or even play games.

Funding connects undergrads to sustainability research

Cornell Atkinson has announced four new projects to be funded through Summer Undergraduate Mentored Research Grants.

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Students from 29 campuses join forces for health hackathon

Teams addressed the weekend’s patient safety challenges related to medication, patient care, procedures/surgery, infection and diagnostic error.

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Tryptophan in diet, gut bacteria protect against E. coli infection

The research reveals how dietary tryptophan – an amino acid – can be broken down by gut bacteria into small molecules called metabolites that ultimately keep E. coli from colonizing in the gut.

Sperm formation step could hold clues to male contraception

A cross-college collaboration is opening new doors in the study of male infertility by breaking down a key step in sperm formation. Isolating the intricacies of meiotic sex chromosome inactivation, will now enable researchers to identify what happens when that key step fails.

microRNA predicts severe Crohn’s disease in children

Researchers comparing intestinal samples of children with Crohn’s disease and healthy children found one molecule that shows significant differences between the two groups.

Filament formation enables cancer cells’ glutamine addiction

Blocking the formation of filaments – multi-enzyme structures that fuel cancer activity – may offer new ways to control cancer cell proliferation, according to a new study led by Cornell researchers.

Emerging salmonella variety in dairy cows worsens antimicrobial resistance

A study of more than 5,000 salmonella bacteria isolated over 15 years from dairy cattle samples in the Northeast reveals a significant increase in resistance to the antimicrobial medications ampicillin, florfenicol and ceftiofur.