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A Physician’s Journey Into the Minds of Coma Patients

A Columbia neurologist hopes to better identify which patients with severe brain injuries are likely to regain consciousness. 

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Bentley Shuster, a postdoc, spoke about life in the lab and her attempts to program soil-dwelling bacteria to shrink tumors in mice.

In a new study, researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Hong Kong University find that the omicron variant of Covid-19 is resi

The group will send bacteria to the International Space Station to understand how low gravity affects microbes and antibiotics.

It was long accepted that the Vikings were the first people to settle the Faroe Islands, around 850 A.D.

A study of an investigational gene therapy for sickle cell disease has found that a single dose restored blood cells to their normal shape and elim

A laboratory experiment found that as CO2 solidified, it caused the rock around it to crack.

New insights into the genetic architecture of schizophrenia could pave the way for predicting who is at risk of developing the disease.

A ban on heating oil #6 has been effective in reducing air pollution, says a new study that’s the first to provide a framework for evaluating the i

A study sheds light on how the brain remembers key information which might one day help treat memory disorders.

Hearing aids are getting better, and Americans will soon be able to buy them without a prescription.

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have found a way, using 2D materials, to build superconducting qubits that are a fraction of the size of previo

Researchers at the Zuckerman Institute find unexpected connections among brain cells that record memories of places in mice.