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A Scientist Returns to a First Love

May 23, 2019

Video of A Scientist Returns to a First Love | Claire Oh | Weill Cornell Medicine

An athlete, artist, writer and scientist, Claire Oh allowed her disparate passions to guide her career. Her undergraduate bioengineering studies at Cornell University exposed her to the use of nanoparticles to target cancer cells, ultimately inspiring her decision to earn her PhD in pharmacology at Weill...

Circular RNA Could Enable New Therapies, Discoveries

May 22, 2019

A new technique developed by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators that creates an unusually stable form of RNA may illuminate many cellular processes and enable new kinds of gene therapies. A study describing the technique was published April 8 in Nature Biotechnology.

Short strands of RNA, called RNA aptamers, can be very useful tools for scientists. They can bind to proteins and block or control their activity. They can...

Comic Relief

May 15, 2019

Comic actor Seth Rogen and his wife are open about how Alzheimer’s disease has affected their family: her mother suffers from its early-onset form, and by age 60 she could no longer speak. In 2012, the couple founded Hilarity for Charity, a nonprofit devoted to raising funds for research and engaging millennials in the fight against the disease. And last year, the group partnered with the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-...