Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University, called vaccine misinformation on social media "very dangerous" and said it could have "dire consequences."
Cells used to study the human blood-brain barrier in the lab aren’t what they seem, a new study has found, throwing nearly a decade’s worth of research into question.
The model has not been published or peer-reviewed yet, but lead researcher, Jeffrey Shaman, an infectious disease specialist at Columbia University, shared the data exclusively with NPR.
Pregnant women face greater risks to their health from COVID-19 than the general population and should be offered a vaccine if eligible, say experts at Columbia and NewYork-Presbyterian.
Cancer patients on active treatment are 35% less likely to develop COVID-19 than patients not receiving treatment, though those who did test positive for SARS-CoV-2 experienced higher death rates.
Bianca Jones Marlin is working to answer one of biology’s most perplexing questions: How does stress or trauma get passed down to children and even grandchildren?
The world has “allowed the virus to infect 100 million people already,” says virologist David Ho, who heads the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center. “That is 100 million chances for mutation.”
