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New center to bring CU agricultural innovations to China
October, 2009A new center may help make such Cornell agricultural advances as transgenic drought- and salt-tolerant rice available in China.
New technology provides deeper look into building blocks of life
October, 2009Cornell startup Pacific Biosciences, now in Menlo Park, launched in 2004 with eight people and $1.5 million in venture capital. It has grown to attract $260 million in investments and has 300 employees.
New technology provides deeper look into building blocks of life
October, 2009Cornell startup Pacific Biosciences, now in Menlo Park, launched in 2004 with eight people and $1.5 million in venture capital. It has grown to attract $260 million in investments and has 300 employees.
Fabrics that fight germs and detect explosives go to market
October, 2009iFyber LLC, begun in fall 2008, uses technology developed through a cross-campus collaboration by fiber science professor Juan Hinestroza and Aaron Strickland, a research associate in the Department of Food Science.
Weill Cornell Researchers Discover New Anti-Tuberculosis (TB) Compounds
September, 2009Findings may lead to drugs that destroy TB in dormant stage of lifecycle.
Cornell startup Novomer raises $14 million in new funding
August, 2009Jim Mahoney, Novomer CEO, says the funding gives the company the cash it needs to ramp up its production process, buy raw materials, and design new products in conjunction with partners.
Mining the web for feelings, not facts
August, 2009Cornell startup Jodange, Inc. offers a service geared toward online publishers that lets them incorporate opinion data drawn from over 450,000 sources, including mainstream news sources, blogs and Twitter.
Cornell makes cancer vaccine for clinical use
August, 2009The Bioproduction Facility at Cornell University has produced the first batch of NY-ESO-1 recombinant protein—a cancer vaccine—that will be used in clinical trials for patients facing either ovarian cancer or melanoma.
Researchers have created the tiniest laser since its invention nearly 50 years ago
August, 2009Cornell's Materials Science and Engineering Department, the Birck Nanotechnology Center and the Center for Materials Research at Norfolk State have created a nanolaser.
Cornell genome sequencing startup raises $68 million in new financing
August, 2009Cornell startup Pacific BioSciences, Inc., one of the companies working to advance DNA sequencing technology, just brought in $68 million in new financing
Exploring collaboration opportunities in sustainable development (story is in Chinese only)
August, 2009Cornell Vice Provost, Alan Paau, was received by official of the Hainan Chengjiang Li Minority Autonomous Region in Hainan Island to explore collaboration opportunities in sustainable development for the area. Hainan Island is the second largest island in China. The island is the largest island of the Nansha (Spratly) and the Xisha (Paracel) archipelagos in South China Sea that represent the southern-most province of the country.
Exploring collaboration opportunities in agriculture commercialization.
July, 2009Chinese Minister of Agriculture, Sun Zhencai, received Cornell Vice Provost, Alan Paau, at the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture in Beijing, China to explore collaboration opportunities in agriculture technology development and commercialization.
Molecule-size capsules can deliver drugs by sticking to targeted cells
July, 2009It is now possible to engineer tiny containers the size of a virus to deliver drugs and other materials to targeted cells in the bloodstream.
Re-Markable Paint Company
June, 2009Cornell startup Re-Markable Paint company "kills a lot of grass" in its quest to create eco-friendly line markers for field sports.
CU Structural Soil helps trees be better neighbors
June, 2009Amreq, Inc. a small company in New City, New York, is licensing Cornell soil to help trees grow better in urban environments.
AppleBoost feeds Olympians
June, 2009The U.S. Olympic Committee armed their athletes with 6,000 tubes of AppleBoost, a new energy food product based on the research of Cornell associate professor and world-renowned food scientist Rui Hai Liu.
A startup formed by Cornell students wins a $250,000 investment
May 27, 2009Digiceipt, launched by Cornell students Keith Cowing and Aaron Nathan, is a service to manage your receipts on the web. The startup recently won the East Coast Venture Challenge.
Cornell Startup Widetronix wins New York Creative Core Emerging Business Competition
April 21, 2009Cornell startup Widetronix beats 76 companies to win $100,000 cash prize.
Cornell University working on low-power memory
April 21, 2009Research at Cornell University could lead to low-power, high-efficiency memory chips.
New Biomarker for prostate cancer?
Apr. 16, 2009A newly discovered gene fusion may lead to more accurate tests for prostate cancer. See the PubMed link here
New method to produce critical proteins without using live cells
April 1, 2009A new method developed by Cornell biological engineers offers an efficient way to make proteins for use in medicine or industry without the use of live cells.
World's first nanoscale fluidic (nanofluidic) device with complex three-dimensional surfaces.
March 31, 2009A novel device developed by Cornell researchers has a geometry that allows it to manipulate nanoparticles by size.
New test may predict breast cancer metastasis
March 31, 2009Researchers at Weill have identified a new marker for breast cancer metastasis called TMEM, for Tumor Microenvironment of Metastasis. See the PubMed link here
Cornell researchers develop artifical artery
February 17, 2009A high-functioning artificial artery that the human body will accept as its own is on its way, says Cornell fiber scientist C.C. Chu.
Weill Cornell, Ithaca researchers use cotton candy to create new blood-flow routes
February 17, 2009Physicians and scientists from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and the Ithaca campus may have developed a way to create engineered tissue that is well accepted by the body.
To see the related technology avaiable for licensing, click here.Researcher details role of apples in inhibiting breast cancer
February 12, 2009Studies by Rui Hai Liu support growing evidence that apples' phytochemicals inhibit the growth of mammary tumors.
Cornell startup GeneWeave turns bacteria against itself
Two Cornell doctoral students have developed a portable technology that turns bacteria into supersleuths in the search for "superbugs" like MRSA.
Cornell signs grape research and licensing venture with Sun World International
January 23, 2009Cornell and Sun World operate two of the world's leading fresh grape breeding programs.