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Researchers at Columbia University are continuing to manipulate the proteins, mutating them in the worms and then looking at the consequences. They’re interested in understanding the underlying logic of how a complex lineage is built.They […]

A single infusion of ketamine, combined with outpatient behavioral therapy, helped alcohol-dependent individuals abstain from drinking for a few weeks after the treatment, researchers at Columbia University, a NYSERNet member have found. The findings could […]

The perception of risks associated with cannabis use have declined overall, and the decline has been more rapid among those with depression. The prevalence of cannabis use among those with depression who perceived no risk […]

New research, at Cornell University, a NYSERNet member funded by the Frozen Food Foundation developed a modeling tool to assist the frozen food industry with understanding and managing listeriosis risks. While researchers demonstrated that low-levels […]

Cornell University, a NYSERNet member opened a Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society will unify programs across the university to enhance research in the fast-growing and increasingly important field of data science. The […]

Professors at NYU, a NYSERNet member discovered that some cellular compartments don’t have membranes, which were previously seen as necessary to hold a cell together. In their study, the researchers focused on the best known […]

Princeton University, a NYSERNet member, led researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old ice cores from Antarctica that provide the first direct observations of Earth’s climate at a time when the furred early ancestors of modern humans […]

NSF-funded researchers from Cornell University, a NYSERNet member have made a new discovery about how seemingly minor aspects of the internal structure of bone can be strengthened to withstand wear and tear, a finding that […]

Researchers from CUNY, a NYSERNet member are using a new modeling approach for infrastructure planning of a long-term electricity grid that considers future climate and water resource conditions.  Those conditions include reduced hydropower production as […]

Cornell University scientists report evidence of metal pollution creating danger for soft coral sea fans. The discovery emerged from earlier NSF-funded research. For colourful, graceful sea fans swaying on coral reefs in the waters around […]