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Michelle Monje and her team have been studying diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a severe cancer of the brainstem with no cure.

Alex talks with his mother while wearing Google Glass. He took part in a pilot study that showed a smartphone app paired with the device helped children with autism understand the emotions...

Michelle Monje and her colleagues found that the chemotherapy drug methotrexate can affect three major types of brain cells, resulting in a phenomenon known as "chemo brain."
 

Eric Sibley, professor of pediatric gastroenterology, arrived at Stanford in 1993 to work in the lab of Gary Gray as a postdoctoral scholar.
 

Ron Davis is the senior author of a paper that describes a blood test that may be able to identify chronic fatigue syndrome.
 

Michael Snyder and a broad team of researchers tracked more than 100 people over several years to get a picture of their health as well as looking for early markers of disease.

Alan Cheng and his colleagues were able to regenerate hair cells inside the ears of mice — a first in mature mammals.

“It’s unbelievably satisfying to identify a potential treatment for such a devastating disorder,” Marius Wernig said.

Karl Deisseroth was awarded the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Tanya Luhrmann, professor of anthropology, studies how culture affects the experiences of people who experience auditory hallucinations, specifically in India, Ghana and the United States.

Juul e-cigarettes deliver more nicotine than competing brands of e-cigarettes.
 

Moderator Fred Guterl, left, John Hennessy, Sam Hawgood and Graham Fleming discuss this year's prize-winning research on the panel at the Breakthrough Prize Breakfast & Symposium.

Scholars of natural language processing are exploring the human emotions and social meanings behind the words we use

Researchers hope to probe the inner workings of cells to spot and, one day, even cure disease at the earliest stages. 

Place cells in the hippocampus become active when an animal is in a certain location in its environment. Dots of the same color depict the places where each cell became active as the rat explored...

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Dissociation is a phenomenon in which people can feel disconnected from their bodies and from reality.

A prototype of the handheld ammonia blood detector and associated test strips, developed by researchers at Stanford.

3-D brain cultures are suspended in a lab dish at the lab of Sergiu Pasca.
 

Neuroscientist Ivan Soltesz, framed by an enlarged image of the virtual dentate gyrus he created.

Miriam Goodman in her lab at Stanford Medicine. 

Nineteen Stanford scientists are among the 47 Bay Area investigators who will receive five-year appointments from the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub for innovative disease research.

THE LONG VIEW: Environmental issues can feel overwhelming, but understanding why can help us take action — and bring others with us as we do. 

An AI-based robotics system could help predict and prevent falls. 

“In many ways, we are flying blind in our discussions about artificial intelligence and lack the data we need to credibly evaluate activity.”

The web of neurons that make up the brain is an apt metaphor for a network of cities — only the travelers are people, not electrical signals.

Research by neuroscientists at Stanford suggests that the neurons responsible for maintaining maps in the brain of the physical environment also incorporate mental states such as goals or...

Resting neural stem cells (nuclei shown in blue) accumulate large protein aggregates (pink) in and around storage compartments called lysosomes (green).

Lab mates in the Bao Research Group at Stanford demonstrate the flexibility and stretchability of their artificial skin made using their newly created printing method.

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The researchers drew on data gathered from students using the BrainExplorer, a tabletop tool that simulates how the human brain processes visual images.