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NOVAKnee, a “living knee” implant by Columbia Researchers, has been named to the 2026 TIME Best Inventions List. The project is co-led by @ColumbiaBME Clark Hung and Nadeen Chahine, with @mumedicine collaborators led by James L. Cook. bit.ly/4dGBAaw @ColumbiaMed
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A new study found that when microplastics contact water, their surfaces can become chemically reactive; it could be how they get us sick. news.columbia.edu/news/micro…

Microplastics Are Chemically Active, and Could Cause Biological Harm

A new study found that when microplastics contact water, their surfaces can become chemically reactive; it could be how they get us sick.

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🧬 New research in Nucleic Acids Research from IICD members and collaborators introduces Songbird, a computational tool that identifies copy number changes and estimates ploidy in single cells—helping researchers understand cancer evolution. Read more: bit.ly/4s4W82y
Figure illustrating Songbird, a flexible genome copy number caller. Figure by Benjamin Wesley, Artwork by Jennifer Jones

ALT Figure illustrating Songbird, a flexible genome copy number caller. Figure by Benjamin Wesley, Artwork by Jennifer Jones

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👏 Congratulations to Michael Woodford, the John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University, for receiving the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, along with Robert E. Hall of @Stanford: nobelprize.org/prizes/econom… 📷 Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach
A graphic showing Michael Woodford as a black and white sketch with gold accents, with announcing his receiving of the Nobel Prize in Economics.

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@ColumbiaMedOct 6
Governor Kathy Hochul recently declared a State Disaster Emergency amid a surge in measles cases across rural and upstate communities. Columbia infectious disease specialist Dr. Irene Frantzis explains how measles affects the body, causing serious, sometimes fatal, complications. columbiamed.link/4y8DkRh

What Measles Does to the Body

Measles infects the lungs, brain, and immune system. A Columbia infectious disease specialist explains symptoms, complications, and why vaccination is critical.

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The current El Niño will break all sea-surface temperature records to date and will very likely deliver unprecedented weather-related impacts around the world. Learn more from our experts via State of the Planet: news.climate.columbia.edu/20…
Fires rage in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, during the 2015-2016 El Niño season. Credit: Rini Sulaiman/Creative Commons.

ALT Fires rage in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, during the 2015-2016 El Niño season. Credit: Rini Sulaiman/Creative Commons.

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This year's prestigious @WolfPrize_ in Medicine goes to our very own @Columbia Charles Zuker: "For revolutionizing our understanding of taste," as the citation reads, "the last of our senses to be elucidated.” zuckermaninstitute.columbia.… @ColumbiaMed
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Mark Ross-Lonergan, an experimental neutrino physicist, first arrived at Columbia as a postdoctoral researcher in 2017. Now, he's back as a professor. news.columbia.edu/news/forme…

A Former Postdoc Returns as a Professor

Mark Ross-Lonergan is an experimental neutrino physicist with a passion for oysters.

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🔬 New research from IICD and @columbiamed! Published in @NatureImmunol, the study tracks T-cell clones across time and tissue to reveal how they evolve and contribute to damage in graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). #CancerResearch #Immunology Read more: cancerdynamics.columbia.edu/…
Figure illustrating “Spatiotemporal single-cell profiling reveals T cell clonal dynamics and phenotypic plasticity in human graft-versus-host disease,” including computational methods

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@ColumbiaMedSep 22
According to a new study by @ColumbiaMSPH researchers and the University of Colorado Anschutz, people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the U.S. face a 14-year deficit in life expectancy. The study provides one of the first large-scale estimates of age-specific death rates and life expectancy among people with ASD. columbiamed.link/4hEAVZr

Autism Is Linked to 14-Year Deficit in Life Expectancy

The new findings highlight substantial disparities in life expectancy and identify preventable causes of excess mortality.

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Professor Duncan Menge is the new chair of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. In his spare time, he plays guitar in the department band. news.columbia.edu/news/how-a…

How Arctic Ecosystems Shape Our Climate

Professor Duncan Menge is the new chair of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology. In his spare time, he plays guitar in the department band.

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Natalie Fardian-Melamed was named a Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists laureate. Samuel H. Sternberg was named a finalist for the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. news.columbia.edu/news/colum…

Columbians Named Blavatnik Award Finalists and Laureate

Natalie Fardian-Melamed was recognized for discovering and engineering ultra-sensitive, light-based nanosensors.

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@ColumbiaSurgerySep 17
Four operating rooms. A robotic donor surgery. One liver that would be divided to save three adults. This single day combined: A robotic living-donor surgery (a healthy donor donates part of their liver) A domino transplant (a chain of organ donations between multiple patients) A split-liver transplant (a procedure where a donor liver is split into two parts, with each part transplanted into a separate recipient) All in adults, all at once. It stretched across 15 hours, four rooms, and more than 30 team members. And in the end, three patients received the chance at renewed life. Here’s how it unfolded, step by step, told in sequence with just enough anatomy to bring you into a surgical mindset. columbiasurgery.org/news/one…
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Columbia research scientist Jennifer Sokoloski is helping scientists get more from the new @VRubinObs. news.columbia.edu/news/colum…

The Columbia Researcher Connecting Scientists to Data From a Major New Telescope

Columbia research scientist Jennifer Sokoloski is helping scientists get more from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

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Columbia News spoke with Professor Göran Ekström about a career spent using seismology to study landslides, floods, and other seismic phenomena around the world. news.columbia.edu/news/caree…

A Career Spent Collecting Earth’s Seismic Clues

Professor Göran Ekström tracks incidents like landslides and glacier collapse using tools once used only to monitor earthquakes.

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Funded by the National Science Foundation (@NSF), the National Synthesis Center for Organismal Resilience will leverage real-world data and innovative AI to improve understanding of how plants and animals build resilience in dynamic environments. fas.columbia.edu/news/columb…
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🗺️ Explore pioneering @LamontEarth geologist and cartographer Marie Tharp's groundbreaking 1977 World Ocean Floor map and discover how it transformed our understanding of the Earth. #MarieTharp Via State of the Planet: news.climate.columbia.edu/20…
Excerpt of the 1977 World Ocean Floor with the text Interactive: The Heezen-Tharp World Ocean Floor Map

ALT Excerpt of the 1977 World Ocean Floor with the text Interactive: The Heezen-Tharp World Ocean Floor Map

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@ColumbiaMedAug 26
The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a new treatment that significantly extends the lives of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer. Learn about how @columbiacancer researchers Drs. Gulam Manji and Kenneth Olive contributed to this breakthrough: cancer.columbia.edu/news/col…

Columbia Research Helps Propel Daraxonrasib, A New Standard of Care

Columbia researchers conducted early studies on daraxonrasib, which nearly doubled survival in a landmark clinical trial and has been approved by the FDA for treatment of metastatic pancreatic cancer.

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Power outages are becoming more frequent, longer, and costlier due to extreme weather events + aging power infrastructure, says @columbiaclimate dean Alexis Abramson. Here are tips to prepare, incl @columbia_ncdp Preparedness Wizard. Via @YahooFinance. finance.yahoo.com/personal-f…

Power outages are getting more expensive. Here's how to prepare.

Power outages are becoming more frequent, longer, and more expensive. Here's what consumers can do to prepare.

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@ColumbiaMedAug 25
Most of the brain’s roughly 100 billion neurons are created before birth, but a small number continue to form in the adult hippocampus, and new findings from a @ColumbiaPS study suggest these neurons may play an important role in protecting against depression. columbiamed.link/4c7NAkE

Depression Stalls Formation of New Brain Cells

Analyses of nearly half a million brain cells revealed the specific cellular changes affecting the brain’s mood and memory center in patients with major depression compared with controls.

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