The summer 2024 issue of Impact, Weill Cornell Medicine’s bi-annual magazine, features Science Over Stigma — by probing the physical cause of obesity, researchers have repudiated harmful misconceptions, leading to new, highly effective medications.

Other stories include:
• The Sounds of Science — how insights from ornithology, coupled with advances in AI, could enable doctors to screen for disease using the human voice
• Bones’ Secret Cells — lab research reveals connections between bone stem cells and a surprising array of conditions, including cancer
• Equal Risk — does race have a role in calculations of health risks?
• Gut Check — new evidence shows that a bacterium found in the gut of livestock could be a trigger of multiple sclerosis in humans

Read the new issue of Impact magazine on the Weill Cornell Medicine website.

Cover story illustration by Bryce Wymer. Additional illustrations by Hvass & Hannibal, Shonagh Rae, Eglé Plytnikaité, Anatomy Blue and Nigel Buchanan.