Roc mom studies show online tools help avoid excess weight gain

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Websites and phone apps that offer information and tools can be effective in preventing major weight gain and obesity associated with pregnancy, according to Cornell studies. These so-called e-interventions provide alternatives for doctors and...
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Smolka Lab: DNA safeguard may be key in cancer treatment

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Cornell researchers have developed a new technique to understand the actions of key proteins required for cancer cells to proliferate. The technique will help guide the development of drugs currently in clinical trials for anti-cancer treatments...

Book notes: Humans increasingly heal, and are healed by nature

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Around the world, people continually come together to rebuild and restore local environments affected by crisis or disaster. In New Orleans after Katrina, in New York after Sandy, in Soweto after apartheid and elsewhere, people unite to restore...
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Many join the 1 percent, but few stay and some face longer odds

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By John Carberry and Ellen Leventry Here’s some good news for the New Year: According to new research by Tom Hirschl, professor of development sociology at Cornell University, and Mark Rank of Washington University in St. Louis, there’s a 1-in-9...

CALS faculty working to reduce crop molds for healthier babies

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Malnutrition is responsible for more than two million children’s deaths annually, and too little food is not the only problem. Sometimes even adequate diets—rich in corn and nuts, for instance—aren’t enough to nourish babies and children, when...
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NASA-Cornell study says ‘megadroughts’ likely for US West

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The consequences of climate change paint ableak picture for the Southwest and much of America’s breadbasket, the Great Plains.A “megadrought” likely will occur late in this century, and it could last for threedecades, according to a new report...
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Woodswoman Fund honors LaBastille, inspires future women scholars

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By CelinaScott-Buechler In school, students learn the names Henry David Thoreau, John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt; and are taught they are the men who led the American conservation movement. But they weren’t alone. Women have played a key role...
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Mealworm ‘meat’ team competes to feed the world

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Think tofu but with a creepy-crawly, sustainable twist: A Cornell food science team will compete Feb. 14 at the Thought for Food Global Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, with C-fu – a new protein product made entirely of crushed mealworms – that may...
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Pioneering way to fight diabetes on the horizon

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Pioneering way to fight diabetes on the horizon Pioneering research published today in the journal Diabetes by John March, associate professor of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University, could lead to a pill with...
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Cornell alumna fights Ebola on the front lines in Liberia

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As the largest Ebola epidemic in history continues to ravage West Africa – leaving more than 8,000 dead in 2014 according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – international efforts remain underway to prevent further spread of...
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