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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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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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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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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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- September 20, 2012
Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) is one of 50 institutions selected nationwide from more than 700 applications for a “Provocative Questions” grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
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Wall Street Journal VideoSeptember 18, 2012Features Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic's bioengineering research into new ways to build replacement body parts using a patient's own cells.
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The Wall Street JournalSeptember 18, 2012CUMC researchers are working on ways to print living human tissue -- to one day produce personalized body parts & implants on demand.
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- September 13, 2012
Personalized stem cell transplants for age-related macular degeneration may reach clinical trials soon.
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- September 11, 2012
NFL Charities supports Dr. Ottavio Arancio's research on the role of PP2 methylation in chronic traumatic encephalopathy susceptibility & recovery.
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The New York TimesSeptember 11, 2012Dr. Tom Maniatis is honored for developing research methods for studying human cells -- where only bacterial cells were possible before.
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- September 10, 2012
Tom Maniatis' discoveries concerning the nature of genes are being recognized with the prestigious Lasker-Koshland Award in Medical Science.
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- September 5, 2012
David Brenner, PhD, DSc, discusses three aspects of radiation and CT scans—quality control, training, and overuse—that urgently need addressing.
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- August 30, 2012
Dr. Andrew Marks & his team have identified a potential medical treatment for the cognitive effects of stress-related disorders, including PTSD.
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