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Providing healthier food choices for our nation's schoolchildren is a hot-button issue in Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign. And a team of researchers from Cornell University have recently identified one simple solution to help schools serve more fresh vegetables and salad items.Laura Smith, a researcher at the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, presented the findings of the study "Convenience Drives Choice in School Lunchrooms" at this week's Experimental Biology conference in Anaheim,...
Partnership with Environmental Defense Fund will nurture environmental leaders, green campuses WASHINGTON, April 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the nation's oldest black fraternity, and Environmental Defense Fund are launching a transformational partnership to increase the number of diverse environmental leaders on university and college campuses and in communities of color. The Alpha and EDF partnership will educate the fraternity's student and alumni...
Scientists are one step closer to developing a targeted therapy for lymphoma. New research, published by Cell Press in the April 13th issue of the journal Cancer Cell, identifies a specific small-molecule inhibitor that was nontoxic in animal experiments and could kill human lymphoma cells.BCL6 is the most commonly involved oncogene in diffuse large B cell lymphomas (DLBCL). Previous work has shown that BCL6 is required for survival of lymphoma cells and that blockade of the gene potently...
New device may allow affordable, at-home ultrasound treatment of chronic pain from conditions such as arthritisImagine that after long day tending to patients, a middle-aged nurse feels a burning pain in her knees so intense she can barely walk. For millions of people who suffer from arthritis or other chronic joint pain, this is a familiar story. Right now there are few day-to-day therapies available for these patients, and many involve strong medications that can be harmful over time.If...
RACINE, Wis., March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- SC Johnson, A Family Company, today announced a collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) on global efforts to combat malaria. The organizations will jointly support research programs conducted by Cornell University Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise and a consortium of Indonesian research institutions to advance the development and use of consumer products in the fight against the spread of the disease. This collaboration...
Student-run venture fund joins Quaker BioVentures in Series A round ITHACA, N.Y., March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BR Ventures (BRV), an MBA student-run venture fund of the Johnson School at Cornell University, today announced that it has invested in Semprae Laboratories, joining Quaker Biosciences, which led the Series A round. Semprae is the maker of Zestra® Essential Arousal Oils(TM), the only topical, non-prescription product clinically proven to improve desire, arousal and...
There is something about the rhythm and texture of early cinema that has a very different "feel" than modern films. But it's hard to put one's finger on just what that something is. New research may help explain this elusive quality. Cognitive psychologist (and film buff) James Cutting of Cornell University, along with his students Jordan DeLong and Christine Nothelfer, decided to use the sophisticated tools of modern perception research to deconstruct 70 years of film, shot by shot. They...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On February 16, 2010, from 8:30a -- 11:00a in the Zenger Room of the National Press Club, creation scientist Robert Gentry brings to public attention the scientific community's censorship of his overthrow of big bang cosmology by disproof of its central assumption, as reported in his 2/16/10 American Physical Society poster at the DC Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/APR10/Event/124797. The NPC event enlarges on...
Compound could be used against HIV-1, Nipah, Ebola and other deadly virusesViruses are insidious creatures. They differ from each other in many ways, and they can mutate "” at times seemingly at will, as with HIV "” to resist a host of weapons fired at them. Complicating matters further is that new viruses are constantly emerging.One potential weapon is a small-molecule "broad spectrum" antiviral that will fight a host of viruses by attacking them through some feature common to...
Research could improve manufacture of defect-free, thin films needed to make semiconductorsThe quest for faster electronic devices recently got something more than a little bump up in technological knowhow. Scientists at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. discovered that the thin, smooth, crystalline sheets needed to make semiconductors, which are the foundation of modern computers, might be grown into smoother sheets by managing the random darting motions of the atomic particles that affect...
