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Meet our faculty: Tara Fischer
Academic focus: Organelle quality control in health and disease Research summary: The Fischer Lab is interested in mechanisms of organelle quality control – or how cells monitor the integrity of their internal compartments to preserve organelle...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
A single Drosophila larval sensory neuron labeled by the MAGIC technique

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Researchers at Cornell University have developed a powerful new genetic toolkit that allows scientists to study how genes function at the level of individual cells, an advance that could accelerate discoveries in development, neuroscience and...

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
Ayshwarya Subramanian

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Ayshwarya Subramanian, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a winner of the Pilot Award.
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
Illustration of a DNA strand

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Cornell researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move within and bind to the genome.

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
Portrait of Mariana Wolfner at her desk

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Eight Cornell faculty, including Provost Kavita Bala, are featured as “New Heroes” in a portrait series by Christopher Michel, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s inaugural artist-in-residence.

  • Molecular Biology and Genetics