NEW YORK, NY (Nov.
'Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture' Workshops have started at Columbia, funded by Humanities Division’s Sustainable Worlds Initiative.
NEW YORK, NY, July 8, 2016—Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and Weill Cornell Medicine, in collaboration with NewYork-Presbyterian and NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, have been awarded a gr
Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and University of Iowa scientists have used a new gene-editing technology called CRISPR to repair a genetic mutation responsible for retinitis pigmentosa (RP), an inherited condition that causes the retina to degrade and leads to blindness in at least 1.5 million cases worldwide.
Twenty years ago, deciphering epilepsy genetics was thought to be one of the most intractable challenges to tackle.
Ophthalmology is a promising specialty for implementing Precision Medicine because of the eye’s amenability to intervention and the significant human and economic burdens it incurs.
