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Older adults in England have experienced significant improvements in health compared to previous generations, researchers at Columbia's Robert N. Butler Aging Center have found.
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Columbia cancer researchers are investigating how exercise, early puberty, and hormones may play a role in the rising numbers of early onset breast cancer.
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In the same way that ChatGPT understands human language, a new AI model developed by Columbia computational biologists captures the language of cells to accurately predict their activities.
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By generating movies of individual molecules performing actions that make our bodies tick, Columbia researchers have a deeper understanding of a process important in cancer and other diseases.
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Latest News
- December 20, 2013
Highlights from research covered during the past 12 months in our CUMC newsroom.
- December 13, 2013
A new technique combining genomics and algebra may help researchers better understand the evolution of viral pandemics.
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- December 5, 2013
Columbia's 2013 Horwitz winners: Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser & John O’Keefe for findings that could lead to new Alzheimer's treatments.
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- December 1, 2013
For the first time, scientists have successfully transformed human stem cells into functional lung and airway cells.
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- November 27, 2013
Findings raise the possibility of a new approach to combating malaria, one of the world’s deadliest diseases.
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- November 21, 2013
Targeting an enzyme that raises both sugar and insulin levels in the obese may prevent and treat diabetes.
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- November 21, 2013
While smoking rates are down in the U.S., electronic cigarette sales are rising. Experts warn that these smokeless devices are not risk free.
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- November 18, 2013
Columbia has honored Philipp E. Scherer, PhD for helping usher in a new understanding of fat and its role in diabetes and other metabolic diseases.
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- November 14, 2013
The Franklin Medal recognizes Dr. Frank for the development of cryo-electron microscopy to reveal the structures of molecules at high resolution.
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- November 13, 2013
Stem cells created from the skin of patients with a rare form of diabetes have been used to elucidate an important biochemical pathway for beta-cell failure in diabetes.
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