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Vaccines containing inactivated versions of disease-causing germs are traditionally not as effective as live vaccines made with weakened pathogens. But new research from Weill Cornell Medicine scientists reveals how a molecule found in live vaccines produces a robust immune response, and adding it to an inactivated vaccine can create the same strong results.

These insights may provide a blueprint for engineering more potent inactivated or “dead” vaccines that can deliver strong...

Getting high school students to stay inside on a warm, sunny afternoon to work on science might sound like an impossible task, but on Feb. 27 dozens of students from public high schools across New York City happily did just that.

A total of 90 teens participated in Big Red STEM Day, a Weill Cornell Medicine-led initiative designed to inspire high school students from communities underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to pursue STEM-related education...

The modern concept of general anesthesia dates back to the 1840s, when doctors and dentists began giving patients ether before operations. Until then, surgery—whether to pull a tooth, remove a tumor or even amputate a limb—had been a violent and painful business. A patient might have been dulled by alcohol or opium—or even knocked unconscious with a blow to the head—but in most cases a team of strongmen would have held him down as he screamed in agony. The ability to reliably render a...

In an age of overabundant and accessible information, when evidence-based research is devalued, how can scientists and journalists work in concert to rightfully inform the public of medical progress?

That was the focus of a presentation given by ABC News Medical Unit Managing Editor Dan Childs Oct. 18 during the inaugural event of a lecture series called “Science and Society” presented by the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences.

Childs emphasized the need for...