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The allure of foundation models in medicine is undeniable. Foundation models are large-scale machine learning models trained on broad data at scale and designed to be adaptable to a wide range of downstream tasks. In natural language processing and computer vision, they’ve demonstrated remarkable capabilities. GPT-4, for instance, can generate human-like text responses, and models… Read more: Foundation Models in Medicine: Revolution or Hype?

Just before 7 p.m. on September 19, a small crowd of postdocs began gathering outside Founder’s Hall. A few sported stickers proclaiming “I Voted Union Yes!” The air was warm and the nervous excitement palpable as the group began to move toward the building, where the vote count for Rockefeller’s postdoc union election was about… Read more: Rockefeller Postdocs Vote to Unionize

    Have you ever experienced “butterflies in your stomach?” Maybe a “gut feeling” that just cannot be explained? Nerve cells can be found in even more places than the brain or the central nervous system: enter the enteric nervous system (ENS). The ENS, a unit of the peripheral nervous system, is a group of… Read more: Trust your Instincts: Gut-Brain Research at Tri-I

How does text-to-image AI work? Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen tremendous growth in the last two decades such that it is now starting to permeate most workplaces, especially with the recent open-source models like DALL-E and chatGPT. Science is no different.  AI uses machine learning algorithms that refer to the ability of a computer to… Read more: AI-generated images for use in scientific communication

On November 15th, 2023, postdoctoral fellows at Weill Cornell Medicine voted to unionize by a 99% majority of 328 to 4. Forming the union gives postdocs the legal right to engage in collective bargaining with the institution. Postdocs aim to use this right to improve workplace conditions through increased salary minimums, improved housing and childcare… Read more: New Weill Cornell postdoc union begins collective bargaining

Across a wide variety of cancer types, the overexpression of EZH2 is a well-documented phenomenon. A type of histone methyltransferase, the EZH2 enzyme adds methyl groups onto  specific residues on histones, the core proteins of chromatin coils. By methylating a specific type of histone, EZH2 inhibits the transcription of tumor suppressor genes, ultimately causing cancer… Read more: Briefing on EZH2 Research in the Tri-I