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Future treatments for hearing loss—including gene therapy—could come to rely on a tiny 3D-printed microneedle designed by a close-knit team of Columbia physicians and engineers.
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Columbia researchers have found that women born in the most sexist U.S. states experience faster memory decline in later life compared to women born in the least sexist states.
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Researchers have learned how to stimulate the immune system in animal models to produce large quantities of broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV—a prerequisite for an effective vaccine.
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Ovaries are the fastest aging organ in the body, but the least studied organ in aging research. New findings from Columbia's Yousin Suh suggests ovarian aging has lessons for us all.
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- November 16, 2015
There’s at least one health-related downside to being small: the odds of getting a lung transplant are considerably lower.
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- November 9, 2015
Individuals living in higher income neighborhoods are more likely to register with multiple transplant centers & have increased access to organ transplants.
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- November 2, 2015
Yufeng Shen, Peter Sims, and Chaolin Zhang have designed a new team-taught course that covers both the experimental and analytical basics of next-generation sequencing.
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- October 23, 2015
Study finds inhibiting a family of enzymes inside hair follicles that are suspended in a resting state restores hair growth.
- October 21, 2015
Despite known risks of serious side effects, especially in older adults, the fraction of seniors treated with antipsychotic medications increases with age, researchers have found.
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- October 19, 2015
A new study has found that celiac patients are at no increased risk for dementia before or after their diagnosis of celiac disease.
- October 13, 2015
Systems Biology Professor Saeed Tavazoie has been named a recipient of a NIH Transformative Research Award for his research on molecular interaction mapping.
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- October 12, 2015
Andrea Califano and his investigative team discover a molecular signaling mechanism underlying a specific type of highly aggressive breast cancer.
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- October 12, 2015
In their new study, Guohua Li and Ruth Landau found a decreased rate of anesthesia-related complications in women who had cesarean delivery.
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- October 8, 2015
P&S neurosurgeon Adam Sonabend is awarded an NIH Early Independence Award for his research on brain tumors.
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