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Columbia scientists have found that breast cancer patients who are HIV-positive are 40% more likely to have triple-negative breast cancer—the most aggressive subtype—than patients without HIV.
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Columbia cancer researchers are investigating how exercise, early puberty, and hormones may play a role in the rising numbers of early onset breast cancer.
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In the same way that ChatGPT understands human language, a new AI model developed by Columbia computational biologists captures the language of cells to accurately predict their activities.
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By generating movies of individual molecules performing actions that make our bodies tick, Columbia researchers have a deeper understanding of a process important in cancer and other diseases.
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- November 15, 2024
Columbia’s Dian Yang is placing CRISPR-based molecular recorders into cancer cells to eavesdrop on cancer evolution and pinpoint when and how cells metastasize.
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- November 11, 2024
Misinformation and outdated beliefs about screening tests, treatment options, and effects on sexual health continue to cloud understanding about this disease.
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- October 23, 2024
The Columbia community gathered in the Hudson Valley for the eighth annual Velocity: Columbia’s Ride to End Cancer. This year’s event raised more than $1 million and attracted nearly 600 participants.
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- October 16, 2024
Columbia researchers have engineered bacteria as personalized cancer vaccines that activate the immune system to specifically seek out and destroy cancer cells.
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- October 8, 2024
Physician-scientist Juanma Schvartzman is a firm believer that his curiosity-driven research on cell metabolism and its influence on cell identity will offer clues for better cancer treatments.
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- September 27, 2024
On Sunday, Oct. 6, cancer survivors, researchers, and physicians will cycle through the Hudson Valley to help Columbia solve cancer.
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- September 25, 2024
Combining a diabetes drug with a cancer drug not only kills aggressive bladder cancer cells in mice, but also turns remaining malignant cells into a more benign state.
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- September 6, 2024
Lewis Silverman, the new director of pediatric hematology, oncology, and stem cell transplantation, is working to minimize the aftereffects of treatment to ensure the highest quality cure possible.
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- August 29, 2024
In a mouse model of breast cancer, mice fed a ketogenic diet experienced significantly more lung metastases compared to those on a control diet.
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- August 29, 2024
Columbia researcher Jasmine McDonald, who studies factors that affect the risk of developing breast cancer, discusses what is known about breastfeeding's protective influence on maternal health.
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