“It’s not always easy to tell the difference,” said Paul Appelbaum, the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, and Law at Columbia University.
The most common tests for glaucoma can underestimate the severity of the condition because they do not detect the presence of central vision loss, ophthalmologists at Columbia have found.
With a genome that’s regularly broken into 225,000 pieces and reassembled, a pond protist may be the perfect creature to teach us how genomic stability—often lost in cancer—is maintained.
The new findings “will absolutely have the potential to change the way we practice,” said Dr. Nisha Jhalani of ... Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
