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Sleeping too Little (or too Much) Linked to Faster Aging, and Other Science News

The latest findings from Columbia researchers

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Your Chatbot Is a Terrible Therapist. Here’s Why.

Columbia clinicians are studying how ChatGPT and other AI tools may reinforce harmful beliefs and endanger vulnerable users

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Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals

Columbia researchers look at the politics of despair

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The Pollution Inside Your Home

Columbia researchers measured the air in and around New York City apartment buildings. What they found surprised them

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Neuroscientists Discover a Major Cause of Age-Related Memory Loss

There's strong evidence that forgetfulness in old age may be reversible

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Mavens of Madness

Introducing a satirical, Yiddish alternative to the "bible of psychiatry"

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Looking for the Telltale Gene

A new genetic test allows parents to peer into their unborn children's medical future. Are we ready for this knowledge?

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Cloudy, with a Chance of Flu

Columbia researchers have created the first forecasting system for influenza outbreaks 

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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

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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.
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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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