“This has potential for human health, where we can understand better how to make cell replacement therapies,” said Kristin Baldwin, an author of the study and a neuroscientist at Columbia University.
According to Daichi Shimbo, a cardiologist at Columbia University and the study's lead author, this research marks a step toward understanding how different negative emotions affect physical health.
Editor's Note: This video features the research of Zev Williams, director of the Columbia University Fertility Center. Dr. Williams's segment begins at 1:02.
“What does it mean to have a reflection of starvation in a grandparent in an offspring?” said Bianca Jones Marlin, a neuroscientist in the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University.
“We may need to start clearing amyloid much earlier, and we think that can be done through the bloodstream,” Dr. Richard Mayeux, chair of neurology at Columbia University, said.
“We’re learning that pregnancy has long-term effects on the body,” says Calen Ryan, associate research scientist in the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at the Mailman School of Public Health.
Editor's Note: Selmaan Chettih is a postdoctoral research scientist in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. The story begins at 2:08.
“We are thrilled to work with Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons on this cutting-edge research lab that is a first for New York City,” said KPF principal Jill Lerner.
Hung and co-investigator Nadeen Chahine, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, will aim to make a replacement out of stem cells.
That’s one of the first big challenges says Joachim Frank, a structural biologist at Columbia University in New York City who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on cryo-EM.
