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In the News Highlights When They Couldn’t Get Benzos Anymore, Quitting Was Torture May 14, 2025 The New York Times “Benzos generate as much anxiety in the prescriber as they do in the patient,” said ...

Another patient, a man in his mid-30s, was asymptomatic when he began treatment, but tests of electrical activity in his muscles indicated that symptoms would likely emerge soon. In three years of ...

Michel Sadelain, the Herbert and Florence Irving Professor of Medicine, has been awarded the 2025 Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology for developing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell ...

Physician-scientist Jay Vyas was initially surprised when he was approached about becoming director of the medical residency program at Mass General nearly a decade ago. The position is usually held ...

The Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Class of 2025 celebrated graduation with friends and families on May 21. The ceremony honored 136 students who received MD degrees ...

More information The research appears in “Programmable gene insertion in human cells with a laboratory-evolved CRISPR-associated transposase,” published May 15 in Science. All authors: Isaac P. Witte ...

Thanks to a man who allowed himself to be bitten by his pet snakes, scientists have developed the first broad-spectrum antivenom that neutralizes the neurotoxins in 19 of the world’s deadliest snakes.

The newly identified neurons, a new element of these circuits, are located in the brainstem, the oldest part of the vertebrate brain. Their discovery could lead to new treatments for obesity. “These ...

“Previous models have been trained on data in particular cell types, usually cancer cell lines or something else that has little resemblance to normal cells,” Rabadan says. Xi Fu, a graduate student ...

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 ...

The bacterial vaccine proved to be particularly more efficacious than peptide-based therapeutic cancer vaccines that have been used in numerous previous cancer clinical trials. “The important ...