Addictive use of social media, video games, or mobile phones—but not total screen time—is associated with worse mental health among preteens, a new study by researchers at Columbia's Vagelos College ...

Two teams at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons received funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York to develop next-generation, personalized cell therapies for cancer and autoimmune ...

CUIMC CELEBRATES acknowledges faculty, staff, and students at Columbia University Irving Medical Center who receive major research grants, who earn prestigious honors, who are elected to honorary ...

Most of us have experienced the effects of moods and emotions on our gastrointestinal tract, from “butterflies” in the stomach caused by nervousness to a loss of appetite when we’re feeling blue. A ...

Since the genetic code was first deciphered in the 1960s, our genes seemed like an open book. By reading and decoding our chromosomes as linear strings of letters, like sentences in a novel, we can ...

As a graduate student, Sternberg worked with Doudna to develop one of the earliest CRISPR-based tools. Since joining Columbia in 2018, Sternberg has broadened his search, looking for additional ...

About the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) is one of the world’s leading private, international philanthropic organizations, making grants to nonprofit ...

Nosebleeds usually come from the area of the front of the nasal septum known as the Kiesselbach’s plexus, where a number of arterial branches converge. The vessels keep the area well supplied with ...

Now a new study from Columbia researchers suggests that metformin is indeed a promising drug that could prevent the progression of prostate cancer, but only for tumors with low levels of NKX3.1, which ...

An experimental drug first tried at Columbia University Irving Medical Center as a last-ditch effort to help a 25-year-old woman with juvenile ALS is now being tested in ALS patients in a global, ...

Legend has it that Marie Antoinette’s hair turned gray overnight just before her beheading in 1791. Though the legend is inaccurate—hair that has already grown out of the follicle does not change ...

When COVID-19 patients started inundating New York City hospitals in March, Columbia neurologists were ready, thanks to some advanced preparation. “When we saw what was happening in China and Italy, ...