Rockefeller, Weill Cornell researchers find link between estrogen, brain structure changes
Scientists at Rockefeller University and Weill Medical College of Cornell University have discovered how estrogen initiates physical changes in rodent brain cells that lead to increased learning and memory -- a finding, the researchers contend, that illustrates the likely value of the hormone to enhance brain functioning in women.... ...Their study, published in the March 15 issue of The Journal...Cornell researchers turn conventional thinking about canned corn on its ear
Canned corn may be healthier for you than corn on the cob, according to a study by Cornell University scientists. The researchers say that heat processing of sweet corn significantly raises the level of naturally occurring compounds that help fight disease....... a peer-reviewed publication of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society....... Sweet corn is the number-t.... For at least the past two summers, high amounts of ground-level ozone a pollutant commonly called "smog" have seriously retarded the growth of ozone-sensitive white clover in agricultural areas of Long Island, N.Y., according to a plant pathologist at Cornell Universitys Horticultural Research and Extension Center in . Riverhead, N.Y.. . The effects of the pollutant on the clover appear to...Tumor Protein Structure Found At Cornell
. Structure of protein that helps feed cancerous tumors is deciphered at Cornell.University, possibly leading to more effective drugs .ITHACA, N.Y. -- For some years now, cancer researchers have known that cancerous.tumors are fed by nutrients and oxygen through blood vessels generated by.endothelial cells. Now the hope is to develop drugs to prevent the cells from.forming the blood vessels, thu...ACS Aids Cornell Vet School Cancer Research
.Robert E. Oswald, professor of pharmacology, received $166,000 in ACS funds for a two-year study, "Structure and Regulation of Cdc42Hs," while James W. Casey, associate professor of microbiology and immunology, was granted $90,000 for a two-year continuation of his study, "Development and Regression of a Retroviral Induced Sarcoma." .The Oswald study examines mutations in pathways used by growt...Cornell Text On International Nutrition
.To review the nature of hunger and malnutrition in the world today, describe the causes and ways to deal with hunger and malnutrition and discuss international food and nutrition issues, Michael Latham, M.D., professor of international nutritional sciences at Cornell University, has authored a new text, (Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO]of the United Nations, 1997,...Overweight Cats Risk Disease And Premature Death, Cornell Study Finds
...... ...ITHACA, N.Y. -- Seriously overweight cats are more likely to suffer diabetes mellitus, lameness and non-allergic skin conditions, a Cornell University veterinarian's four-year follow-up to a feline obesity study has shown. ...Most likely to be tubby are neutered, apartment-dwelling, mixed breed cats eating prescription cat food. ..."The original obesity study and the follow-up confirm...Laser Microscope At Cornell Images Serotonin In Live Cells
.The microscope, which uses pulsed lasers for excitation, can record ultraviolet (UV) fluorescence images of live cells without using UV illumination to detect and image cellular activity. ."This technique caught serotonin granules in the act of releasing the substance, without damaging th...Bog Beetle, Misidentified For 85 Years, Is 'Discovered' At Cornell
.In August 1995, Kipling W. Will, a graduate student in entomology from Columbus, Ohio, and James K. Liebherr, Cornell professor of entomology and curator of the Cornell insect collection, were working through the university's insect collection when they stumbled upon a species that looked familiar but whic...Cornell Scientists Find Way To Boost Rice Crop Yield -- They'll Walk On The Wild Side
."We've gone back and found wild species that contain genes that may help us boost production," said Steven D. Tanksley, Cornell's Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Breeding and Biometry. "The world is only so big, the population is growing and we need to continue feeding that population." Tanksley and Susan R. McCouch, Cornell assi....The technique allows researchers to take samples as small as a single cell and identify many of its components with unusually high confidence, something that is almost impossible with current analytical technologies, the researchers say. The technique could be used for molecular investigations about human medical disor..... .GENEVA, N.Y. -- Wrestling with New York's cool climate is the pain and the glory of their profession for the region's winemakers and grape growers. Much of the Finger Lakes' increasing reputation for good wine over the past decade is because the region's microclimate is similar to the fine grape growing regions of Germany and France. But whether or not grapes will survive sudden hard freez...Cornell Researchers Precisely Date Wood From Ancient Tomb In Turkey
.Reporting in the journal Nature (June 27), Peter I. Kuniholm, Cornell professor of the history of art and archaeology, with other researchers in the university's Aegean Dendrochronology Project and at the universities of Heidelberg and Reading, have constructed a tree-ring sequence spanning 1,503 years from the ring gro...From Corn Rootworms To Art, Cornell's Reactor Is At The Core
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Like a physician examining X-rays, Leslie Allee lends an expert eye to . the film hanging on the light screen. .No broken bones here. Allee, a Cornell University doctoral student in entomology, is .looking at film that shows a thin white line branching off in different directions. Around .it are three or four tiny white marks, maybe 1/4-inch long -- the objects of her attention...