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Biology News

Fishermen cast their nets in the Amazon River.

News

Smaller fish offer better nutrition, lower environmental cost

Smaller fish species are more nutritious, lower in mercury and less susceptible to overfishing, a Cornell-led research team has found.

  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Biodiversity
  • Ecosystems
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News

New research elucidates a raindrop’s impact on a leaf - the equivalent in mass of a bowling ball hitting a person - and the physical dynamics that help the leaf survive.

  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Biology
  • Plants
Method compresses terabytes into gigabytes.

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A new method developed at Cornell provides tools and methodologies to compress hundreds of terabytes of genomic data to gigabytes, once again enabling researchers to store datasets in local computers.

  • Computational Biology
  • Genomics
  • Genetics
Chronic fatigue syndrome patient.

News

The study found that key CD8+ T cells showed signs of constant stimulation that lead to an exhausted state, a condition that is well-studied in cancer.

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Neurobiology and Behavior
  • Genomics
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A tool co-developed by Cornell researchers uses AI and machine learning to solve and predict how human proteins might interface and interact with other proteins, which can greatly accelerate fundamental research and clinical precision medicine.

  • Computational Biology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
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Enrichment culture from a Boreal Shield lake sheds new light on the evolution of phototrophy Josh Neufeld Professor & University Research Chair Department of Biology University of Waterloo
  • Microbiology
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Seminar

Thiamine Deficiency from a One Health Perspective Katie Edwards Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Binghamton University
  • Microbiology