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Andrea Goldsmith becomes first woman to win the Marconi Prize, shattering a glass ceiling in the field of telecommunications
The Stanford professor and inventor has been awarded the top honor in information and communications research, and has gifted back her $100,000 honorarium to start an endowment to fund technology and diversity initiatives.
Medical school professors elected to National Academy of Sciences
Howard Chang of dermatology and of genetics, Richard Lewis of molecular and cellular physiology, and Peter Sarnow of microbiology and immunology were elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
What's 'Zoom fatigue'? Here's why video calls can be so exhausting
There may be an unintended effect, mental health and communications experts warn: "Zoom fatigue," or the feeling of tiredness, anxiousness or worry with yet another video call.
Forget 'social distancing.' The WHO prefers we call it 'physical distancing' because social connections are more important than ever
The World Health Organization and other health experts would prefer if we stopped calling the practice "social distancing."
Andrea Goldsmith named dean of engineering at Princeton University
This accomplished professor, researcher, academician and entrepreneur is poised to apply her experience to new leadership challenges.
Gene variant staves off Alzheimer’s in some people
Stanford Medicine researchers have found a gene variant that protects carriers of another gene variant, ApoE4, from developing Alzheimer’s disease — the first demonstration of that beneficial effect.
A brain stimulation experiment relieved depression in nearly all of its participants
Massaging key parts of the brain with a pulsating magnetic field can do wonders for some living with chronic depression. For others, it falls well short of promising a life without a debilitating mood disorder.
Stanford researchers find that misfiring from jittery neurons set fundamental limit on perception
The ability to make fine visual discriminations between two stimuli runs up against a natural barrier created by large groups of ‘noisy’ neurons behaving similarly.
Stress thwarts our ability to plan ahead by disrupting how we use memory, Stanford study finds
Pairing brain scans with virtual-navigation tasks, researchers found that people make less efficient and effective plans when stressed.
Stanford seeking to expand space for COVID-19 research
Stanford is looking to expand the only facility on campus where researchers can work with the virus that causes COVID-19. Once underway, the expansion could be completed in six months and would greatly speed research toward treatment and prevention.
Lyme disease bacteria eradicated by new drug in early tests
A study from Stanford Medicine researchers and their collaborators that provides evidence that the drug azlocillin eliminates the bacteria that cause Lyme disease at the onset of infection in lab mice and cultures.
Stanford device brings silicon computing power to brain research and prosthetics
A new device enables researchers to observe hundreds of neurons in the brain in real-time. The system is based on modified silicon chips from cameras, but rather than taking a picture, it takes a movie of the neural electrical activity.
Stanford scientists program cells to carry out gene-guided construction projects
Stanford researchers have developed a method to genetically reprogram cells to build artificial structures.
Alcoholics anonymous most effective path to alcohol abstinence
A Stanford researcher and two collaborators conducted an extensive review of Alcoholics Anonymous studies and found that the fellowship helps more people achieve sobriety than therapy does.
African killifish may hold key to stopping ageing in humans
The curious ability of the African turquoise killifish to press pause on its development could have intriguing implications for human ageing, say researchers.
New Stanford ChEM-H and Neurosciences Buildings dedicated
On Feb. 11, Stanford ChEM-H and Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute hosted a scientific symposium, CONNECT, to celebrate the official dedication of the new ChEM-H and Neurosciences Buildings.
Brain-wave pattern can identify people likely to respond to antidepressant, study finds
Using EEG to measure brain activity, Stanford researchers and their collaborators applied artificial intelligence to help determine the best depression treatment for individual patients.
Neural signature identifies people likely to respond to antidepressant medication
NIH-funded research used machine learning algorithm to predict individual treatment response.