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Instead of trying to fix stroke-damaged nerve cells, Stanford scientists took aim at a set of first-responder immune cells that live outside the brain but rush to the site of a stroke. It worked.

By using eye-tracking technology to automatically control a pair of autofocus lenses, engineers have created a prototype for “autofocals” designed to restore proper vision in people who would ordinarily need progressive lenses.

Joy Franco, a graduate student in engineering, is a part of Stanford's Wormsense lab. This piece features an audio story with Franco on her life in science.

In the latest issue of Stanford Medicine magazine, writer Nathan Collins listens to the stories of lab members, including neurobiologist Miriam Goodman.

Rewarding experiences alter the spatial maps in our brains.

Scientists find neurons that hard-wire brains to recognize the sex of strangers

Have you ever wondered how singers like Adele and Beyonce are able to hit high and low notes with such flexibility and accuracy? Well, this ability to control pitch as we speak or sing is something that humans have but other primates do not.

Plans, dreams and day-to-day work for a team studying the sense of touch.

Stanford neuroscientist Jamil Zaki’s new book, “The War for Kindness: Building empathy in a fractured world,” makes a powerful case for kindness and empathy — not only because they make the world a better place, but because they help us, too.

Revisiting a 2014 study that suggested states with medical marijuana saw fewer opioid deaths, Stanford researchers in fact found no connection between marijuana availability and fatal opioid overdoses.

Radiologists improved their diagnoses of brain aneurysms with the help of an artificial intelligence algorithm developed by medical experts and computer scientists.

Mark Berry and Aaron Gitler have been appointed to endowed professorships.

The phrase can’t remotely capture our ever-shifting digital experience, social scientists say. Say hello to the “screenome.”

Ten Researchers Selected to Receive $6M in Total Science Funding for Cutting-edge Research

A stroke in 2010 left former Stanford professor Debra Meyerson having to learn to walk again, while speech remains difficult.

Many people are quick to label octopuses as alien and strange, and for good reason. Octopuses look, act and even appear to think so differently from us. Although, by all accounts, you could not get any farther from humanity than this strange sea creature,

For people, the link between pain and emotion is a good thing. But sometimes it can also be destructive, says Beth Darnall, a psychologist at Stanford University.

Many teens own e-cigarette samples, coupons or branded promotional items, and this makes them more likely to try the products, a Stanford study found.

In 2012, a pair of neurosurgery residents traded their scrubs for lab coats in an effort to understand, at the most basic level, what causes medulloblastoma, the most common pediatric brain cancer.

Blocking an immune-related molecule lodged in blood vessels stops memory loss