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Oncology & Cancer

Portable prostate cancer test may help reach underserved men

A highly portable and rapid prostate cancer screening kit could provide early warning to populations with higher incidence of prostate cancer and particularly those with limited access to health care, such as African American ...

Genetics

Gene helps dietary fat find its way in the body

After you finish a milkshake or a bowl of guacamole, those dietary fats have a typical route through your body. New research from the laboratory of Dr. Natasza Kurpios, associate professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Antibodies help keep harmful forms of gut fungi in check

Antibody protection against harmful forms of fungi in the gut may be disrupted in some patients with Crohn's disease—a condition caused by chronic inflammation in the bowel—according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine ...

Medical research

Parallels in human, dog oral tumors could speed new therapies

Recent Cornell research compared the genetic expression profiles of a nonlethal canine tumor and the rare, devastating human oral tumor it resembles, laying the groundwork for potential translational medicine down the road.

Other

Food scientists create zinc index for human body

Zinc deficiency is prevalent around the world, and among children, these mineral shortfalls can lead to stunting, embryonic malformations and neurobehavioral abnormalities. Over several decades, science has improved understanding ...

HIV & AIDS

Partnering with traditional healers boosts HIV testing in Uganda

Collaborating with traditional healers to deliver point-of-care HIV tests to individuals in rural Uganda quadrupled testing rates compared with standard referrals to HIV clinics, according to a trial by Weill Cornell Medicine ...

Health

Wine's red grape pulp offers nutritional bounty

Pomace—the mashed, leftover pulp from red grapes in the early process of making wine—is considered byproduct rubbish. But maybe not for long. In a new Cornell University-led food science study, researchers now demonstrate ...

Oncology & Cancer

Uncovering key vulnerability of aggressive lymphomas

Lymphomas can turbo-charge their ability to proliferate by crowding growth-supporting enzymes into highly concentrated compartments within tumor cells, according to a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Gastroenterology

Bacteria underlie success of fecal microbiota transplants

The effectiveness of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) in treating ulcerative colitis depends on a small set of beneficial bacterial strains, suggests a new study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian.

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