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Weill Cornell Medical College researchers report that mass spectrometry, a tool currently used to detect and measure proteins and lipids, can also now allow biologists to "see" for the first time exactly how drugs work inside living cells to kill infectious microbes. As a result, scientists may be able to improve existing antibiotics and design new, smarter ones to fight deadly infections, such as tuberculosis. The new study was published in today's early online edition of Science.

Life is a constant work in progress for Dr. Marcus Reidenberg, head of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medical College. Most days, he carries a camera in his bag in the event something he sees will inspire him. Lately, he's been using his photographic eye to capture men and women who he says, "enable the city to function."

Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) and the Ministry of Environment's Biotechnology Center have launched the Date Palm Research Program to establish Qatar as an international leader in date palm research.

Informatics is integral to solving the nation's urgent healthcare issues of rising costs and the delivery of quality care. Training the next generation of professionals to develop, implement and research new informatics technologies is vital. Through the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, the Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy (CHiP) is now accepting applications for a new master's program in health informatics to do just that.

Biologists, clinicians and translational scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and The Methodist Hospital in Houston assembled at the Medical College Oct. 12 for the inaugural Tri-Campus Breast Cancer Research Retreat.

Dr. Laurie H. Glimcher, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University, is a winner of the 2012 William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic Immunology from the Cancer Research Institute for her outstanding achievements in immunology and cancer research.

A research team at Weill Cornell Medical College has discovered a way to utilize diagnostic prenatal amniocentesis cells, reprogramming them into abundant and stable endothelial cells capable of regenerating damaged blood vessels and repairing injured organs.

Dr. Andrew I. Schafer, chairman of the Department of Medicine and The E. Hugh Luckey Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and physician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies. Membership in IOM is one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.

Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) has celebrated its 10-year anniversary. Since it started academic operations in 2002, the college has created 112 new doctors, established a world-class biomedical team and contributed to further Qatar's goal of becoming a knowledge-based economy.

The Mimi Suico Summer Research Program at Weill Cornell Medical College just concluded its first program, giving three students the opportunity to pursue biomedical and translational research.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the week of Oct. 5 - Oct. 12.

A new study by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, provides compelling evidence that electronic health records (EHRs) enhance the quality of patient care in a community-based setting with multiple payers, which is representative of how medicine is generally practiced across the United States.

For months, strains of Mozart's Requiem and a chorus of melodic voices have been heard at Weill Cornell Medical College, as dozens of dedicated musicians gathered weekly to rehearse for the Music and Medicine Initiative's largest performance to date.

Weill Cornell Medical College students David Roy, Sha-har Admoni, Nipun Verma and Andrew Ji were selected to participate in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Medical Research Fellows Program, which allows medical, dental and veterinary students to take a year off from school to pursue biomedical research.

Making the time to take care of your body and fulfill your needs becomes increasingly more difficult with the pressures and stresses of a demanding schedule, fast-paced job and the increasing number of distractions around us.

Weill Cornell Medical College researcher Dr. Shuibing Chen's pursuit of a treatment or cure for type 2 diabetes received a boost a few weeks ago after receiving one of 51 New Innovator awards from the National Institutes of Health.

Parents should not worry that proposed changes to the medical criteria redefining a diagnosis of autism will leave their children excluded and deemed ineligible for psychiatric and medical care, says a team of researchers led by psychologists at Weill Cornell Medical College.

A new study by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers shows that adolescents' reactions to threat remain high even when the danger is no longer present. According to researchers, once a teenager's brain is triggered by a threat, the ability to suppress an emotional response to the threat is diminished which may explain the peak in anxiety and stress-related disorders during this developmental period.

Crowded shopping centers, visits from long-lost relatives, and the pressure of preparing holiday meals can all summon one universal reaction: stress. The holidays may be the season of love and celebration, but sometimes festivities can become overwhelming.

Weill Cornell Medical College has started a new chapter in its history in the literal and literary sense with last week's release of its first humanities journal, Ascensus.