Tryptophan in diet, gut bacteria protect against E. coli infection
A paper from the Chang lab recently published in Nature explains how Tryptophan contributes to gut health and is found to protect against E. coli infection.
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A paper from the Chang lab recently published in Nature explains how Tryptophan contributes to gut health and is found to protect against E. coli infection.
Read moreCornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability awards research grants to graduate students across three colleges: EEB's Cheyenne Reuben-Thomas among the grads whose research advances sustainable biodiversity, energy transitions, food security, human health and reducing climate risk.
Read moreBlocking the formation of filaments – multi-enzyme structures that fuel cancer activity – may offer new ways to control cancer cell proliferation, according to a new study led by Cornell researchers.
Read moreSong Lin, Tisch University Professor of chemistry and chemical biology, talked about how his lab is trying to mimic the way plants fix CO2, via the abundant enzyme Rubisco.
Read more“The more we understand protein modification and function, the better we understand its central role for human health and disease.”
Read moreThe study presents an unexpected connection between spermidine, a long-known compound present in all living cells, and sirtuins, an enzyme family that regulates many life-essential functions.
Read moreCornell researchers have taken an important step toward harnessing CRISPR gene editing in “targeted, safe and potent” cancer treatment.
Read moreCornell Atkinson faculty fellow Phillip Milner has won a Carbontech Development Initiative grants to develop carbon removal technologies.
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