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Bioengineered Soft Microfibers Improve T-cell Production

Bioengineered Soft Microfibers Improve T-cell Production

January 17, 2018
engineering   medicine  

Columbia University biomedical engineers have designed a new, biomaterials-based system that takes a soft approach to improving cell manufacturing and may bring new hope to cancer patients for T-cell therapy.

Birth Season Study Links Prenatal Environment with Disease Risk

Birth Season Study Links Prenatal Environment with Disease Risk

November 15, 2017
data science   medicine  

A new Columbia analysis of health information from more than 10 million people living in three countries and five different climates sheds light on the prenatal environmental exposures that link birth season and disease risk.

For Zika Virus, Infecting Brains Isn’t A New Trick

For Zika Virus, Infecting Brains Isn’t A New Trick

November 8, 2017
medicine   neuroscience  

New Zika research from Columbia University suggests that high rates of microcephaly in Brazil were not caused by new mutations in the virus, as previously believed.

‘Wunderkind’ Bianca Marlin Probes the Biology of Parenting

‘Wunderkind’ Bianca Marlin Probes the Biology of Parenting

November 6, 2017
medicine   neuroscience  

Bianca Jones Marlin, Ph.D., is among the first of a group of early-career North American scientists to receive a STAT Wunderkinds award, which recognizes the brightest young minds in life science.

Study in Mice Reveals that Body’s Own Defense Against ALS Actually Drives Disease Progression at Later Stages

Study in Mice Reveals that Body’s Own Defense Against ALS Actually Drives Disease Progression at Later Stages

September 13, 2017
medicine   neuroscience  

A new study in mice reveals that one of the body’s natural defenses against ALS suppresses disease progression early on, but in later stages advances the disease’s deadly spread through the spinal cord.

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