How is social media impacting young people’s mental health? There are youth, especially those with social anxiety or depression, who may have a tendency to spend more time online and reduce their real ...

Pediatric oncologist Stergios Zacharoulis and biomedical engineer Elisa Konofagou are pioneering the use of focused ultrasound to treat brain cancer in children and dozens of other brain diseases.

Different types of memories stored in the same neuron of the marine snail Aplysia can be selectively erased.

Each autumn, fourth-year medical students at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) embark on a ritual that is equal parts life-changing and career-defining—the residency interview ...

Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) is a clinical, research, and educational enterprise located on a campus in northern Manhattan.

Members of the CUIMC community enjoyed warm soup, a live jazz performance, a winter squash giveaway, and a fall photo contest at the CUIMC Annual Fall Festival on Nov. 11 in Haven Plaza.

Since most people, not just postmenopausal women, experience a rapid rise in blood sugar after eating refined carbohydrates, the authors suspect that these findings may also hold true in a broader ...

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 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 ...

NEW YORK, NY (August 21, 2014) — Children and adolescents with autism have a surplus of synapses in the brain, and this excess is due to a slowdown in a normal brain “pruning” process during ...

Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and University of Iowa scientists have used a new gene-editing technology called CRISPR to repair a genetic mutation responsible for retinitis pigmentosa (RP) ...