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Long-term spaceflight causes more changes to gene expression than shorter trips, especially to the immune system and DNA repair systems, according to research by Weill Cornell Medicine and NASA investigators as part of NASA’s Twins Study, which followed the only set of identical twin astronauts for more than two years.  

Neuroscientist Dr. Lisa Mosconi explores why women have a much higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease than men.

Women who have healthy pregnancies tend to show distinct changes in the activities of immune genes starting early in pregnancy, while women who have complicated pregnancies tend to show clear departures from that pattern, according to a new study from a team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS).

The Starr Foundation is continuing its longstanding commitment to stem cell research in New York City with a $50 million gift in support of the Tri-Institutional Stem Cell Initiative (Tri-SCI), a research collaboration between Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University and Weill Cornell Medicine. 

A new artificial intelligence approach by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators can identify with a great degree of accuracy whether a 5-day-old, in vitro fertilized human embryo has a high potential to progress to a successful pregnancy. 

Production of an essential protein for maintaining a healthy immune response in the intestine called interleukin-2 (IL-2) depends on immune cells known as innate lymphoid cells (ILCs), according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers.

A set of gene variants that originated in Sub-Saharan West African populations may help explain why black women, compared to white women, have worse breast cancer outcomes, according to a new study from a team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian.

The deletion of a gene that normally promotes healthy cell division in the prostate encourages the growth of cancer in the gland, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The findings, published March 28 in Cancer Cell, suggest that the gene, once deleted, helps to promote tumorous growth.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the month of March.

Dr. Ting Jia, PhD ’09, taps his science skills to guide investment in biotech

A drug already approved for anemia offers hope for people leukemia.

 Dr. Helen Su, a clinical immunologist who has made key discoveries into the genetic causes of rare immune system diseases in children, has been awarded the fourth annual Gale and Ira Drukier Prize in Children’s Health Research.

Consuming the equivalent of one can of soda per day caused mice predisposed to colon cancer to develop larger tumors, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators.

Pulmonologist Dr. Fernando Martinez hopes that a simple questionnaire can help identify patients with COPD who are undiagnosed—and improve countless lives around the globe.

A short checklist of signs and symptoms could be a critical tool for directing limited medical resources to the most urgent cases of anthrax following a mass exposure to the deadly bacterium.

Medical students in the Weill Cornell Medical College Class of 2019 learned on national Match Day where they will be doing their internship and residency training—the next three to seven years of their medical careers.

Gerontologist Dr. Sara Czaja studies how technology can help older adults live happier, healthier, more active lives.

On Feb. 25, 42 students in the Class of 2021 earned their short white coats during the annual white coat ceremony, launching the next phase of their medical careers.

Dr. Carl Nathan, chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded the institution’s Joan and Sanford I. Weill Exemplary Achievement Award.

Dr. Manuel Hidalgo, a leading physician-scientist who specializes in pancreatic cancer and drug development, has been named chief of the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology in the Weill Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, effective June 1.