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Fluoridated Water Is Safe for Pregnant Women, and Other Recent Discoveries

Six of the latest research breakthroughs from Columbia scientists

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Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals

Columbia researchers look at the politics of despair

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What Will It Take to Prevent School Shootings?

In our desperation to protect children, we’re turning schools into fortresses. Columbia researchers are leading a nationwide investigation to see if these tactics actually work

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How a Cocaine-Addicted Surgeon Changed Medicine Forever

How William Stewart Halsted became the father of modern surgery.

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Hope for New Life in Diabetic Pancreas Cells

A new study suggests that type 2 disease progresses in a different way than previously thought

Columbia researchers Antonio Iavarone and Anna Lasorella
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Genetic Fusion Linked to Brain Cancer

Columbia researchers uncover the cause of the most common and deadly form of brain cancer

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Hearts & Bones

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic is at the forefront of regenerative medicine. Can her laboratory-grown body parts really work?

Karen Duff and fellow Columbia scientists Li Liu and Scott Small have shown how tau tangles spread throughout the Alzheimer's brain.
Health & Medicine

Tracking Down the Alzheimer’s Executioner

A new discovery brings scientists closer to understanding how the disease spreads

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Serving Family Time

Columbia researchers study the impacts of an alternative-to-incarceration program for single mothers

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Portable Diagnostic Tool Saving Rural Lives

The device requires just a drop of blood from a finger prick and reveals its diagnosis in fifteen minutes

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The Long Shot

If scientists expect to cure cancer they need to take bigger risks, says Columbia biochemist Brent Stockwell

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The Power of Forgetting

A study demonstrates how the Internet is changing the way our brains work

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Health & Medicine

Dentists Join Fight Against Diabetes

Researchers at the College of Dental Medicine have found that dentists can play a significant role in fighting a major public-health crisis

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Health & Medicine

A Step Toward Stem-Cell Therapy

Researchers have discovered a new way to create embryonic stem cells that contain a sick person’s unique DNA

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New Pathways for Treating Alzheimer’s

A study has uncovered alternative causes of the disease

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Beauty and Brains

A new book by Carl Schoonover '11GSAS explores how philosophers and neuroscientists have represented that most mysterious of human workings

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