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Sep 13 2019 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Stanford scientists have come up with a new strategy to help: "We can use the blood to treat the brain," said Stanford clinical genetics expert Natalia Gomez-Ospina, MD, PhD.
Sep 12 2019 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
It's always fun to be able to provide an update to a previous post. In 2017 I wrote about some intriguing research from the laboratory of dermatologist and genome scientist Howard Chang, MD, PhD, that showed that circular RNA molecules play an important and previously unanticipated role in...
Sep 4 2019 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Concussion symptoms vary for different people depending on their medical history, age, degree of injury and other factors.
Aug 30 2019 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
Our skin is the largest organ in our body -- it serves an essential role in protecting the body and transmitting sensations to the brain.
Aug 29 2019
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute partners with the Vice Provost for Graduate Education to award Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowships (SIGFs) in the area of neuroscience.
Aug 27 2019 | Stanford Medicine - Scope
A group of California teenagers exposed to common agricultural pesticides before birth had distinctive reductions in certain types of brain activity, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Aug 26 2019 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
Despite its abundance, water retains a great many secrets. Among them, Stanford chemists have discovered, is that water microdroplets spontaneously produce hydrogen peroxide.
Aug 26 2019 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
A Stanford-led research team invented a new coating that could finally make lightweight lithium metal batteries safe and long lasting, which could usher in the next generation of electric vehicles.
Aug 22 2019 | Stanford Medicine - News Center
For five decades, James Trudell studied how anesthetics work on the human body to cause unconsciousness.
Aug 19 2019 | Stanford News
In the third in a series on what the lives of Stanford researchers actually look like, chemists Noah Burns, Laura Dassama, Michael Fayer and Hemamala Karunadasa talk about their paths into the field, the joys of making new molecules and the way in which “the central science” pervades our lives.
