“The exciting part is that the neurons are there throughout a lifetime,” said Maura Boldrini from Columbia University in New York and first author of the new study published in the journal Cell Stem Cell.
Researchers have developed a computational tool that shines a light on the genome’s most hard-to-translate segments. It may help scientists understand how DNA guides everything from growth and development to aging and disease.
Hundreds of black holes may lie at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, according to a new Columbia study. Such a tight swirl of black holes, which had been theorized for decades but never detected, bolsters current models of how galaxies evolve.