Columbia public health researchers have found that laws that punish drug use during pregnancy worsened family health outcomes or had no beneficial effect, contrary to the laws' intent.
Columbia psychologist Erin K. Engle discusses the signs that indicate the time is right to stop therapy and questions patients should ask themselves before moving on.
Columbia biomedical engineers are collaborating with orthopedic surgeons to build a living replacement knee to be tested in clinical trials within five years.
Columbia genome engineers are designing a CRISPR-based gene therapy with potential to prevent blindness in anyone with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition caused by more than 80 different genes.
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.
An analysis of more than 40,000 primary sensory neurons in the skin has found multiple different types, each sensing a more complex range of stimuli than previously assumed.
