Editor's Note: Matt Walker is a third year doctoral student in the Department of Biology. He has been working with Laura Landweber and Samuel Sternberg in the Department of Biochemistry.
The School of Nursing's Phoenix Matthews shares how they merged once-separate identities as psychologist and activist to fight cancer-related health disparities in underserved populations.
Nosebleeds are harmless most of the time, but when they run in the family, recur frequently, or are accompanied by tiny red spots on the skin, they may indicate a rare and serious condition.
A study of professionals in the National Hockey League found that players who frequently engaged in fighting on the ice died a decade earlier than less pugilistic players.
A study led by Columbia researchers finds that deficiency of taurine, a molecule produced in our bodies, drives aging, and taurine supplements can improve health and increase lifespan in animals.
Some transplant centers routinely skip their highest-ranking candidate to give a donated kidney to a lower-ranked patient, Columbia researchers have found.
“The bottom line is that clinical trials need to be done,” said Vijay Yadav, a longevity researcher at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, who led the study.
