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Scientists Are Developing New Ways to Treat Disease With Cells, Not Drugs

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Time

Bin Xu, Job de Jong and Sander Markx in the Dept of Molecular Therapeutics are leading a pioneering study, using stem cells to find and test new treatments for psychiatric disorders.
Secondary School Teachers Trade Vacation for Stem Cell Research at Columbia

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Newsroom

15 high school teachers conducted research this summer in Columbia University’s Summer Research Program for Science Teachers, which focuses on educating teachers about stem cell biology
Cardiomyocytes Derived from Human Cardiopoietic Amniotic Fluids

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Scientific Reports

Cardiomyocytes Derived from Human Cardiopoietic Amniotic Fluids.
Optical imaging of metabolic dynamics in animals

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Nature communications

Deuterium oxide probing and stimulated Raman scattering (DO-SRS) is an innovative, nondestructive, and noninvasive imaging method to visualize metabolic dynamics of proteins, lipids, and DNA.

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A cluster robustness score for identifying cell subpopulations in single cell gene expression datasets from heterogeneous tissues and tumors.

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Bioinformatics

August 28, 2018

This study describes a new mathematical approach that can aid in understanding whether novel cellular subtypes identified using single-cell genomics techniques can be considered robust.
Top oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee to study effect of diet on cancer drugs

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The Guardian

August 8, 2018

A groundbreaking clinical trial on whether diet could boost the effectiveness of cancer drugs is set to be launched by one of the world’s leading oncologists.
Alberto Ciccia Wins Pershing Square Sohn Young Investigator Prize for Cancer Research

August 1, 2018

Regulation of genome stability and innate immunity in breast cancer
Stem Cell Discovery Could Improve Bone Marrow Transplantation

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CUMC Newsroom

April 10, 2018

New findings about hematopoietic stem cells—which give rise to all blood cells—could lead to improvements in bone marrow transplantation.
Adult-like Human Heart Muscle Grown from Patient-specific Stem Cells

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Nature

April 9, 2018

Columbia biomedical engineers grow first human heart muscle from stem cells that shows critical hallmarks of adult human heart function, in just four weeks
Even Old Brains Can Make New Neurons, Study Finds

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CUMC Newsroom

April 6, 2018

Scientists at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons present the most definitive evidence to date that the human brain makes new neurons throughout life.