A multinational research team led by Columbia University and the La Jolla Institute for Immunology has identified a novel viral target that could help combat the global resurgence of measles.
New images of one of the brain’s fastest-acting proteins—the kainate receptor—are providing critical clues that may lead to targeted therapies for epilepsy and other brain disorders.
Columbia University biomedical researchers have captured close-up views of a skin-cell protein that plays important roles in sensing temperature, itch, and pain.
A Mailman study of more than 1 million pregnancies in Finland reports that prenatal exposure to elevated levels of DDT is associated with an increased risk for autism.
Letters written to frequent prescribers of Seroquel, which can cause harmful side effects in the elderly, significantly reduced the number of prescriptions for Medicare patients.
A new way to conduct health studies by tapping the troves of data held in electronic health records may speed medical research and reduce the frequency of conflicting findings.