1+ week, 3+ 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, 3+ day ago   (512+ words) Cornell University researchers have identified a promising drug treatment for a common but aggressive canine oral tumor, a finding that could eventually reduce the need for dogs to undergo extensive jaw surgery. The research focused on canine acanthomatous ameloblastoma, or…...

3+ week, 4+ 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…...