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Cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins have the potential to reduce heart disease in people with obstructive sleep apnea regardless of CPAP use, suggests a new study from Columbia University.
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After a sudden medical scare, many people develop a fear of health care and are afraid to adopt new health habits. The Center for Fearless Behavior Change is testing ways to help.
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Iok In Christine Chio, PhD, and Oliver Clarke, PhD, early-career investigators at VP&S, are 2023 recipients of prestigious awards from the Irma T. Hirschl Trust Research Scientist Program.
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Columbia’s researchers have opened a trial of a noninvasive, focused ultrasound approach to open the blood-brain barrier, enabling higher concentrations of an effective drug to enter the brain.
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- September 7, 2022
Columbia will award the 2022 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Gero Miesenböck, for research that laid the foundation for the field of optogenetics.
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- August 29, 2022
A study of mice found that dietary sugar alters the gut microbiome, setting off a chain of events that leads to metabolic disease, pre-diabetes, and weight gain.
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- August 24, 2022
New findings may help Columbia researchers develop a gene editing tool that can make more precise edits than CRISPR-Cas9.
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- August 18, 2022
A new study led by Columbia researchers may provide important clues to the causes of autism across the full spectrum of the disorder.
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- August 17, 2022
A prenatal test developed by Columbia University researchers can determine if a fetus or embryo has the right number of chromosomes at a fraction of the time, cost of other genetic tests.
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- August 12, 2022
Columbia cancer researchers have found a multitude of mutations linked to lymphoma in previously ignored regions of the genome.
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- August 3, 2022
Columbia research led to the first systemic treatment specifically developed for severe alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss.
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- August 1, 2022
Columbia researchers have developed a new algorithm to better identify safety signals of prescribed drugs in different stages of childhood.
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- July 25, 2022
Twenty years ago, Columbia scientists created a way to make neurons in a dish, a discovery that has led to clinical trials of an experimental drug that may slow the progression of ALS.
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- July 19, 2022
Spontaneous errors in the earliest phase of cell division may explain why so many human embryos fail to develop normally, according to research from Columbia University.
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