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 ...

The AI at VP&S Initiative aims to advance patient health, support health care workers, and push forward biomedical sciences through AI innovation. While the initiative officially launched this year, ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

Women born in the most sexist U.S. states experienced faster memory decline in later years compared to women born in the least sexist states, a new study by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos ...

Why does medicine need this needle? AL: We’re now on the cusp of gene therapies that can restore hearing by regenerating cells in our ears that we lose after years of exposure to loud noises. But we ...

Most of us have experienced the effects of moods and emotions on our gastrointestinal tract, from “butterflies” in the stomach caused by nervousness to a loss of appetite when we’re feeling blue. A ...

Early results from a study of newborn screening methods show that DNA analysis picks up many more preventable or treatable serious health conditions than standard newborn screening and is favored by ...

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 ...

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 ...