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New technique holds promise for improved gene editing

A new engineered gene editing system addresses some of the limitations of current gene editing tools with the hope of improving their use for research, for better crops or to treat diseases.

  • Microbiology
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Sea change: WildFin aims to improve fish behavior analysis in the wild

A doctoral student and a team of Cornell researchers and colleagues created WildFin, a data set composed of nine hours of video that they labeled frame-by-frame with fish behaviors.

  • Computational Biology
  • Animals
  • Fish
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COMM Updates - 10/15/2026
October 15, 2026 Conferences Graduate student Amanda Vilchez, with Yael Silver and Professor Bruce Lewenstein, presented “Trust, Relational Learning, and Boundary-Work in Citizen Science across Knowledge Systems” at the PCST symposium Building...
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COMM Updates - 10/7/2026
October 7, 2026 Conferences Assistant Professor Wunpini Mohammed presented the paper “Resistance Narratives toward Reparative Justice” at the conference From Durban to Now: 25 Years of Struggle for Reparative Justice. On September 25, Wunpini...