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Heart transplants, donor hearts, and transplant waitlists all fell sharply at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Columbia University researchers have found.
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The health of donated human lungs judged too poor for transplantation can be recovered using a cross-circulation technique designed by biomedical engineers at Columbia University.
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Most patients who died or were removed from the kidney transplant waitlist before getting a transplant received multiple offers for a donor kidney.
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Hematopoietic stem cells can survive extraordinary stress. Columbia scientists have learned how they escape death, which could lead to new treatments for blood cancers and diseases related to aging.
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- September 28, 2012
CUMC's Dr. Megan Sykes talks to "The Takeaway" about mouse stand-ins leading the way towards cures, treatment for patients.
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The New York TimesSeptember 26, 2012Megan Sykes, a medical researcher at Columbia, has a mouse with a human immune system — her own. She calls it “Mini-Me.”
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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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- December 14, 2011
Surgeons at NYP/CUMC performed the first Total Artificial Heart implant in the New York City area to replace a patient’s dying heart.
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