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 ...

Columbia University today announced the establishment of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Center for Precision Psychiatry & Mental Health at Columbia University. The center will catalyze the ...

As direct descendants of ancient bacteria, mitochondria have always been a little alien. Now a study shows that mitochondria are possibly even stranger than we thought. Mitochondria in our brain cells ...

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 ...

With the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting the critical importance of biomedical research and new questions being raised about society’s capacity to generate world-changing scientific breakthroughs 1, ...

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Puberty is starting earlier in boys, too It’s easier to detect precocious puberty in girls, but about one in 10 boys and people assigned male at birth undergo precocious puberty, too. Early puberty in ...

More information All authors (from Columbia unless noted): Zachary H. Walsh, Chris J. Frangieh, Neeharika Kothapalli, Jay Levy, Clarissa K. Heck, Johannes C. Melms, Ron S. Gejman, Parin Shah, Jared M.

Bowen Yang, a "Saturday Night Live" cast member, recently went public about experiencing “bad bouts of depersonalization.” Other performers, including musicians Dodie and Adam Duritz, have reported ...

Current test thresholds for detecting iron deficiency in women and children may be too low, according to a new study led by a Columbia researcher. The new study found that physiological changes occur ...

NEW YORK, NY (September 20, 2023)—Columbia University will award the 2023 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize to Zhijian ‘James’ Chen and Glen Barber for discovering the cGAS-STING pathway, a key component of ...

Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to stop eating. Though many feeding circuits in the brain are known to play a role in monitoring food ...