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New Study Uncovers First Genetic Clues to Rare Eye Disease
In MacTel disease, the center of the retina (the macula) is damaged and its blood vessels are dilated and leaky. Image courtesy of Rando Allikmets. Genes that cause MacTel–a rare disease of the...
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New Technique Searches ‘Dark Genome’ for Disease Mutations
Source: Getty Images New York, NY (Aug. 10, 2017)—When doctors can’t find a diagnosis for a patient’s disease, they turn to genetic detectives. Equipped with genomic sequencing technologies available...
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“All of Us” Precision Medicine Exhibit to Visit CUMC
Learn about the NIH’s “All of Us” precision medicine project at CUMC on Tuesday, Aug. 22. The van will be parked at 168th Street and Fort Washington Avenue. The exhibit will be open between 9 a.m. and...
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Funds Scientists Creating Human Cell Atlas
A map of different cellular populations during motor neuron differentiation. (Image: Raul Rabadan) Two research teams at Columbia University Medical Center have received grants from the Chan Zuckerberg...
View ArticleColumbia Helps Lead Ambitious New Precision Medicine Project
Columbia is helping to enroll 1 million Americans in “All of Us,” a large-scale effort to accelerate the medical research that will lead to individualized health care.
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Five Questions About Precision Medicine With Kevin Gardner
Kevin Gardner. Photo courtesy of Kevin Gardner. When people think of precision medicine they mostly think about genes and drugs that are designed to target specific genes. And though genes play a big...
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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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