Faculty in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics define the basic mechanisms of organism function at all scales and will includes high-resolution structural determination and analysis, as well as dynamic imaging of single cells and cell assemblies. The department has produced impactful research on diabetes, metabolism and other topics. The department participates in several graduate training programs, including the Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology and the Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. Program.
Dopamine neurons in a part of the brain called the midbrain may, with aging, be increasingly susceptible to a vicious spiral of decline driven by fuel shortages, according to a...
While glucose, or sugar, is a well-known fuel for the brain, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have demonstrated that electrical activity in synapses—the junctions between...
