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Organoids Created from Patients’ Bladder Cancers Could Guide Treatment
Organoids created from the bladder cancers of patients mimic the characteristics of each patient’s tumor and may be used in the future to identify the best treatment for each patient. Images: Michael...
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NIH All of Us Research Program Takes Off May 6
On May 6, the National Institutes of Health will open national enrollment for the All of Us Research Program—a momentous effort to advance individualized prevention, treatment, and care for people of...
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Edward W—Helping Others and Changing the Face of Medicine
Edward W. is a union man through and through. In 1976, he joined the SEIU Local 32BJ, the nation’s largest property services union, and he has remained a member ever since. For 23 years, he worked in...
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Evelyn O—Seeing the Possibly of Advancements in Care Through “All of Us”
Sixty-one years ago, Evelyn O. was born in NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital three months premature, weighing just over 3 pounds. She spent the first three months of her life in an incubator as doctors...
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Anne H—Joining the All of Us Research Program for the Greater Good
The father’s side of Anne H’s family is a mystery that begins and ends in Berlin. Her father was raised in the city, escaping in the 1930s with a sister when the Nazis took power. His parents and...
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“All of Us” Precision Medicine Program Opens Enrollment to All
Hundreds of New Yorkers attended the launch of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program on May 6 at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, and 105 began the enrollment process for...
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Electronic Health Record Analysis Shows Which Diseases Run in Families
Familial relationships inferred from electronic health records can be used to study the genetics of diseases. Each subgraph in this image is a family reconstructed from EHR data: Each node represents...
View ArticleTargeting the Engine Room of the Cancer Cell
Columbia scientists have developed a new computational framework that can support precision cancer treatment by matching individual tumors with the drugs most likely to kill them.
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More Epilepsy Cases Linked to the Mosaic Brain
Mutations that occur only in a subset of brain cells may account for a significant fraction of specific types of epilepsy, according to a new study led by researchers in the Institute for Genomic...
View ArticleBy Analyzing Doctors’ Notes, New Algorithm May Speed Genetic Diagnosis
New software may speed genetic diagnoses by automatically reviewing physician notes in electronic health records to identify candidate genes.
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