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Improving therapeutics for Type 1 diabetes
Gaby Markle ’26 was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 4 years old. Working with Cornell CALS biological and environmental engineering professor Minglin Ma, Gaby is researching potential treatments using synthetic biology.
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Chemical ecologist Andre Kessler makes an argument for plant intelligence, citing goldenrod's flexible, real-time, adaptive responses when eaten.
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A multidisciplinary team of researchers tested several methods of data visualization in an immersive virtual reality classroom to give teachers a way to gauge how their gaze was distributed.
Roadmap to 2050
Cornell CALS spearheads the "solutions century" by collaborating with the larger university, our network of partners, and local to global communities to coalesce around the world’s leading challenges.
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