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- Omega-6 Fatty Acid Promotes the Growth of an Aggressive Type of Breast Cancer https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025/04/omega-6-fatty-acid-promotes-the-growth-of-an-aggressive-type-of-breast-cancer 0 comments
- Magnetically regulated gene therapy offers precise brain-circuit control https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2024/10/magnetically-regulated-gene-therapy-tech-offers-precise-brain-circuit-control 2 comments
- Smoking is associated with lower cognitive function in older adults https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2023/01/in-brief-smoking-is-associated-with-lower-cognitive-function-in-older-adults 110 comments
- Food Order Has Significant Impact on Glucose and Insulin Levels (2015) https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2015/06/food-order-has-significant-impact-on-glucose-and-insulin-levels-louis-aronne 30 comments
- Sickeningly Sweet https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2019/03/sickeningly-sweet 52 comments
- Pregnancy May Reduce Long COVID Risk | When women contracted SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy, they had a lower risk of developing long COVID compared with non-pregnant women who were exactly matched on region, age, infection time, acute severity, and baseline comorbidities. https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025/04/pregnancy-may-reduce-long-covid-risk 11 comments science
- Designing Self-Destructing Bacteria to Make Effective Tuberculosis Vaccines https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025/02/designing-self-destructing-bacteria-to-make-effective-tuberculosis-vaccines 3 comments futurology
- Pharmacy benefit managers, organizations that negotiate access to medicines for most US patients, steer patients to use their own pharmacies. They are part of conglomerates (CVS, UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Humana) that own insurance companies and pharmacies, which may create conflicts of interest. https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025/01/medicare-rules-may-reduce-prescription-steering 27 comments science
- Self-guided cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) app significantly reduces anxiety in young adults with mental health challenges, finds study. Decrease in anxiety symptoms was significant at 6 weeks and continued at the 12-week follow-up, showing improvement similar to anxiety medication studies https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2024/08/cognitive-behavioral-therapy-app-improves-anxiety-in-young-adults 18 comments science
- Ultrasensitive liquid biopsy tech spots cancer earlier than standard methods: researchers showed that they could train a machine learning model to detect circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) based on DNA sequencing data from patient blood tests, with very high sensitivity and accuracy https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2024/06/ultrasensitive-liquid-biopsy-tech-spots-cancer-earlier-than-standard-methods 4 comments science
- Scientists have developed an innovative human neuron model that simulates the spread of tau protein aggregates in the brain—a process that drives cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2024/04/human-neuron-model-paves-the-way-for-new-alzheimer%E2%80%99s-therapies 5 comments science
- One type of lung cancer that initially responds to treatment (adenocarcinomas) can transform into more aggressive small cell lung cancer (SCLC) that spreads rapidly and has few options for treatmen https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2024/02/how-one-type-of-lung-cancer-can-transform-into-another 4 comments science
- Researchers team has mapped the location and spatial features of blood-forming cells within human bone marrow. Their findings confirm hypotheses about the anatomy of this tissue and provide a powerful new means to study diseases https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2023/11/researchers-chart-the-contents-of-human-bone-marrow 3 comments science
- Stem cells from the human stomach can be converted into cells that secrete insulin in response to rising blood sugar levels, offering a promising approach to treating diabetes, according to a preclinical study https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2023/05/scientists-target-human-stomach-cells-for-diabetes-therapy 174 comments science
- A new study reveals astrocyte dysfunction (an accumulation of a protein called TDP-43) may be a driver of cognitive decline and memory loss in those with dementia https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2023/04/astrocyte-dysfunction-causes-cognitive-decline 31 comments science
- Researchers Find an Antibody that Targets Omicron and Other SARS-CoV-2 Variants https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2023/04/researchers-find-an-antibody-that-targets-omicron-and-other-sars-cov-2-variants 42 comments technology
- Newly identified antibody appears to block infection by all dominant variants of SARS-CoV-2 virus, including omicron https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2023/04/researchers-find-an-antibody-that-targets-omicron-and-other-sars-cov-2-variants 729 comments science
- Pregnant patients with anxiety have altered immune systems: pregnant women with anxiety have higher levels of immune cells cytotoxic T cells and they have differences in the activity of immune markers that circulate in the blood https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2023/03/pregnant-patients-with-anxiety-have-altered-immune-systems 9 comments science
- Smoking is Associated with Lower Cognitive Function in Older Adults https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2023/01/in-brief-smoking-is-associated-with-lower-cognitive-function-in-older-adults 53 comments science
- An enzyme (called APOBEC3G) that defends human cells against viruses can help drive cancer evolution towards greater malignancy by causing myriad mutations in cancer, this suggests that the enzyme may be a potential target for future cancer treatments https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2022/12/enzyme-that-protects-against-viruses-could-fuel-cancer-evolution 6 comments science
- SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination Exposes Latent HIV in Lab Studies https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2022/08/sars-cov-2-mrna-vaccination-exposes-latent-hiv-in-lab-studies 3 comments science
- Children’s mental health during pandemic was influenced by adult vaccination rates and socioeconomic factors, new study finds https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2022/04/children’s-mental-health-during-pandemic-influenced-by-adult-vaccination-rates-and 147 comments science
- Preclinical Study of Mice Finds Gut Fungi Influence Neuroimmunity and Behavior: A specific group of fungi residing in the intestines can protect against intestinal injury and influence social behavior, according to new preclinical research by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine. https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2022/02/preclinical-study-finds-gut-fungi-influence-neuroimmunity-and-behavior 2 comments science
- A protein that masterminds the way DNA is wrapped within chromosomes has a major role in the healthy functioning of blood stem cells, which produce all blood cells in the body, according to a new study https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2022/01/researchers-identify-key-regulator-of-blood-stem-cell-development 10 comments science
- Blood Thinner Reduces Stroke Risk for Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2021/12/blood-thinner-reduces-stroke-risk-for-patients-with-left-ventricular-dysfunction 2 comments science
- Study Reveals How a Longevity Gene Protects Brain Stem Cells From Stress https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2021/02/study-reveals-how-a-longevity-gene-protects-brain-stem-cells-from-stress 2 comments science
- Red Blood Cell Alterations Contribute to Lupus - The autoimmune disease lupus may be triggered by a defective process in the development of red blood cells. The discovery could lead to new methods for classifying and treating patients with this disease. https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2021/08/red-blood-cell-alterations-contribute-to-lupus 7 comments science
- New Super-resolution Microscopy Method Approaches the Atomic Scale https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2021/06/new-super-resolution-microscopy-method-approaches-the-atomic-scale 4 comments science
- The discovery of an “Achilles heel” in a type of gut bacteria that causes intestinal inflammation in patients with Crohn’s disease may lead to more targeted therapies for the difficult to treat disease. https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2021/02/study-identifies-%E2%80%98achilles-heel%E2%80%99-of-bacteria-linked-to-crohn%E2%80%99s-disease 9 comments science
- Sickeningly Sweet: iochemist Dr. Lewis Cantley is Finding Increasing Evidence of a Strong Connection Between Sugar and Cancer https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2019/03/sickeningly-sweet 8 comments science
- Patients with depression can be categorized into four unique subtypes defined by distinct patterns of abnormal connectivity in the brain, according to new research. http://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2016/12/neuroimaging-categorizes-four-depression-subtypes 8 comments science