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CUIMC Update - October 4, 2023

October 4, 2023

View the CUIMC Update, a weekly e-newsletter featuring medical center news and the accomplishments of our faculty, staff, and trainees.

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Campus News
A New Way to Prevent S.T.I.s: A Pill After Sex(link is external and opens in a new window)

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The New York Times

October 3, 2023

“At the population level, that does worry me,” said Antón Castellanos Usigli, a sexual health expert who is an adjunct lecturer at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Columbia Researcher and NPR Ask Listeners to ‘Walk the Walk’ in Real-World Study

October 3, 2023

Brief walks every hour can offset the harms of prolonged sitting—but who has time for that? With the help of an NPR podcast, researcher Keith Diaz is trying to identify, and break, the barriers.

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Campus News
How an Audience Changes a Songbird’s Brain

September 28, 2023

A study of brain activity in courting zebra finches could help neuroscientists understand what happens in our brains when they shift gears as priorities and opportunities change.

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Neuroscience
Verbal Nonsense Reveals Limitations of AI Chatbots

September 28, 2023

Columbia researchers tracked how current language models, such as ChatGPT, mistake nonsense sentences as meaningful. Will analyzing their errors help us understand the way people think?

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Neuroscience
AI Tool Shows Promise in Detecting Alzheimer's Through Speech Patterns

September 28, 2023

ADScreen, a speech-processing algorithm developed at Columbia Nursing, is now being tested in a clinical trial to see if it can help health care workers identify patients with Alzheimer's earlier.

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Alzheimer's
Engineering the Immune System to Fight Cancer

September 28, 2023

Biomedical engineer Santiago Correa uses his expertise in nanotechnology to create injectable biomaterials that reprogram the body’s immune system to fight cancer, autoimmune disease, and infection.

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Cancer
The Genesis of CRISPR’s Molecular Scissors

September 27, 2023

A new study that uncovers the original role of CRISPR’s scissors answers an evolutionary mystery and could lead to the discovery of better gene editing tools.

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Research
CUIMC Update - September 27, 2023

September 27, 2023

View the CUIMC Update, a weekly e-newsletter featuring medical center news and the accomplishments of our faculty, staff, and trainees.

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Campus News
Mainstay Malaria Drug May Be Beginning to Fail in the Horn of Africa

September 27, 2023

A study involving Columbia researchers finds that malaria parasites in Africa have developed resistance to artemisinin drugs, which could worsen malaria’s impact if partner drugs fail in the future.

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Infectious Diseases