There are few facts of life that you can always count on: the human body is 60% water,  you are one centimeter taller in the morning than at night…

In 2012, Tom and Kari Whitehead were looking for a miracle-- their 6-year-old daughter, Emily, had once again relapsed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia…

Bacteria are possibly the most well-diversified organisms on Earth. Given their ability to multiply quickly…

If a weekly injection could change your body and maybe even your identity, would you take it? Ozempic turns this situation into…

“WA HATH GOD WRUOGT?” read the scientists, leaping in excitement. Encoded within the cell’s DNA was…

How does one study the human body? Psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists can much more easily answer this question than biologists can…

After pre-operative testing and final preparations, one of the last things a patient may do before going into surgery is have a conversation with their anesthesia provider…

If you’ve opened up the news recently, you may have seen an article about leucovorin, a drug touted as a therapy for autism. Leucovorin was originally used as a supportive oncotic drug…

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of  fruit flies? Is it the absolute annoyance of seeing them swarm in groups of ten or even a hundred? Or is it the fact that…

During the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic, misinformation hospitalized 6,000 people, and killed almost 1,000. If the public is unable to discern fact from fiction, it’s not inconvenient: it’s deadly.

As humans intrude on wildlife habitats, the invisible boundaries between species blur—creating pathways for pathogens to cross into humans. Zoonotic diseases are caused by the transmission of microbes…

Cornell undergraduates struggle relentlessly to get into their most desired research lab, but what is the environment like in the more niche lab offerings at this University?

This semester has seen more than its fair share of wildlife encounters– from a wild Coyote to skinned bears and beaver sightings across the Ithaca campus…

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), such as Crohn’s or ulcerative colitis, while not uncommon, remain quite mysterious in terms of cause.

If you’ve ever pulled an all-nighter, whether it be to cram for an exam, catch up on job applications, or simply because you – oddly enough – believed it would be fun…

On land, farming is wide stretches of soil… Now picture that underwater…