A new study led by Columbia University researchers projects a substantial rise in uterine cancer incidence and deaths in the United States over the next three decades, with a disproportionate impact ...

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 ...

Another patient, a man in his mid-30s, was asymptomatic when he began treatment, but tests of electrical activity in his muscles indicated that symptoms would likely emerge soon. In three years of ...

Ask scientists what gene editing tool is most needed to advance gene therapy, and they’d probably describe a system that’s now close to realization in the labs of Samuel Sternberg at Columbia ...

The team then determined the mitochondrial density and energy transformation capacity within each cube—roughly the size of a large grain of sand—yielding an energy map of the entire slice.

Patients with sleep spindles and cognitive motor dissociation were more likely to recover consciousness and functional independence. Among those with sleep spindles and cognitive motor dissociation, ...

Using a new artificial intelligence method, researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons can accurately predict the activity of genes within any human cell, ...

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 ...

But how often do we need to get up from our chairs? And for how long? Few studies have compared multiple options to come up with the answer most office workers want: What is the least amount of ...

You probably know vitamin D is important. It’s vital to bone health, muscle movement, nerve connections to the brain, and immune system function. Studies suggest vitamin D also may help protect us ...

Mailman School of Public HealthThe Mailman School of Public Health has trained generations of public health leaders, helping to shape and improve health and safety for millions. Through our commitment ...

Columbia researchers have engineered probiotic bacteria that educate the immune system to destroy cancer cells, opening the door for a new class of cancer vaccines that take advantage of bacteria’s ...