Stories about research and scientific development at Mount Sinai
Research Uncovers How Serotonin in the Nucleus Can Regulate Gene Expression Within Brain Cells
Serotonin, a powerful chemical that sends signals between nerve cells in the brain, has long been thought to play a key role in processes such as appetite, mood, and sleep. Now, research by neuroscientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai...
Joining Forces to Create a New Digital Health Institute
The Mount Sinai Health System and the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), a leading data science research and educational institution in Germany, have formed an affiliation that will combine their expertise in health care delivery, biomedical and digital...
Electronic Lab Notebook for Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai now provides an Electronic Lab Notebook service for all researchers through an enterprise license agreement with LabArchives. The service is a secure, cloud-based software designed to replace paper notebooks and...
Neanderthal Teeth Yield Insights Into Past and Present
Neanderthals became extinct more than 20,000 years ago, but an innovative study of teeth by an international team, including researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has uncovered details about their lives that may lead to new insights into human...
$3 Million Gift to Advance Study of Crohn’s Disease
The Sanford J. Grossman Charitable Trust has committed $3 million to a center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai that is focused on advancing the understanding of Crohn’s disease and creating personalized medicine for its treatment. The trust donated $1...
Mount Sinai Researchers Show That Early Intervention in Preschool Is a Unique Opportunity for Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
Children may have a better chance of avoiding unhealthy habits linked to obesity and cardiovascular disease later in life if they are taught properly about healthy behaviors in preschool, Mount Sinai researchers have shown in a first-of-its-kind study. The researchers...
Advancing International Food Allergy Research
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai recently agreed to collaborate on food allergy research with the Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, and the Samitivej Allergy Institute, prominent medical institutions in Bangkok, Thailand. Initial studies...
A Novel Approach to Making Organ Transplants Successful
The nearly 35,000 individuals who receive organ transplants each year in the United States face a harsh reality: the immunosuppressive drugs they must take to maintain organ survival also weaken the immune system, breaking down the body’s...
Inaugural Symposium Explores Women’s Health
Why are more women than men hospitalized for schizophrenia after age 50? How should a bipolar pregnant woman be medicated? What should the study of women’s health encompass? These were some of the questions posed recently by leading physician-scientists at...