A significant investment in Weill Cornell's leading precision medicine program by Overseer Israel Englander and his wife Caryl will expand the scope of the institution's approach to understanding and treating disease through therapies customized to patients' unique genetic profiles.

Could ‘retromer' be the key to Alzheimer's treatment?

A key to cellular function — and to life itself — is the movement of proteins and lipids within a cell. As these substances follow their paths, a part of the cell called the endosome acts as the traffic hub, sorting them to be recycled, diverted, secreted or degraded. When the endosome sends them to be recycled back to the cell surface, a complex of proteins plays a role like that of a school crossing guard: it encircles them and helps them on their way.

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Patients who develop an infection of the heart valves, known as bacterial endocarditis, have an elevated risk of stroke beginning four months before and up to five months after diagnosis — a period significantly longer than previously reported, researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital found in a new study, published July 10 in the journal Neurology.

Eating protein and vegetables before carbohydrates leads to lower post-meal glucose and insulin levels in obese patients with type 2 diabetes, Weill Cornell Medical College researchers found in a new study.

Using basic information like age, gender and clinical history, Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have developed a simple method to more accurately predict whether a stable patient is likely to suffer from coronary artery disease or die of a heart attack in the next three years.