Stories about research and scientific development at Mount Sinai
Ultraportable Ultrasound Introduced to Medical Education Curriculum
This article was written by Alexa Mieses, a first-year medical student, and first published in The Rossi: Medical Student Quarterly Report. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is known for innovation within the realms of patient care, research, and medical...
Dystonia Researchers Discover New Gene
A team of researchers at The Mount Sinai Medical Center and elsewhere recently discovered a causative gene for primary torsion dystonia (PTD), which sheds light on the genetic underpinnings of this debilitating movement disorder that affects an estimated 500,000...
Helping Far, Helping Near
When yet another team sets off from the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science for some remote location in Africa or Central America, its thoughts are on how to provide the superior standard of care, considered to be the routine at home, to...
Personalized Medicine: Will DNA Sequencing Improve Your Cancer Treatment?
Personalized Medicine is a rapidly evolving approach to patient care that incorporates an individual’s genetic information into a customized prevention or treatment plan. Mapping a person’s total genetic makeup or whole genome sequencing has created mountains of data...
Mount Sinai’s Supercomputer Ushers in a New Era
Mount Sinai School of Medicine recently unveiled its new supercomputer that is helping researchers unlock the intricate mechanisms that lead to human diseases, and hasten the discovery of treatments for them. The computer, named Minerva, after the Roman goddess of...