Welcome to this week's Biomed Bites, a weekly feature that highlights some of Stanford's most innovative research and introduces Scope readers to innovators in a …
Month: November 2014
Using dance to explain science
Circus enthusiast and University of Georgia PhD candidate Uma Nagendra used her aerial talent to create this year's winning "Dance Your PhD" video. The contest …
Putting biomedical research under the microscope
As an immunology PhD student in the late 1990s, I spent countless hours hunched over cages on the lab bench analyzing the immune cells of …
New way to predict advance of age-related macular degeneration
Age-related macular degeneration, in which the macula - the key area of the retina responsible for vision - begins to degenerate, is the leading cause …
Rituals of the body – honoring the loss of bodily wholeness in medicine
SMS (“Stanford Medical School”) Unplugged was recently launched as a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on …
Superathletes sleep more, says Stanford researcher
Hit snooze again - it just might boost your performance, Stanford sleep expert Cheri Mah believed. Seems intuitive, yet research findings were needed. Mah originally …
Love your body, love yourself
As someone with not much regard for my body, I can hear my nutritionist cackling with glee at the thought of this post. She's spent …
A doctor’s dilemma: to help or hold back from treating dangerous infections
If, like me, you’ve wondered why a doctor or nurse would decide to volunteer to help patients with often fatal infectious diseases like Ebola, The …
Study validates oxytocin levels in blood and suggests oxytocin may be a biomarker of anxiety
Oxytocin, sometimes dubbed "the love hormone," can be tricky to study in humans. To conduct research on the connection between oxytocin and emotion, scientists want …
Memory of everyday events may be compromised by sleep apnea
Previous imaging studies have shown that sleep apnea, which causes periods of disrupted breathing during the night, is associated with tissue loss in regions of …
Using "nanobullets" for good – not evil
My husband, a big science fiction fan, perked up the other day when I told him I was writing a medical science story about nanotechnology. …
Is osteoarthritis an inflammatory disorder? New thinking gets clinical test
Osteoarthritis sort of comes with the territory of aging. If you live long enough, you'll probably get it. For those fortunate enough not to have …
Operation Heart: Engaging patients in caring for patients
Stanford's Medicine X is a catalyst for new ideas about the future of medicine and health care. This new series, called The Engaged Patient, provides a …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for week of Oct. 26
The five most-read stories this week on Scope were: Some headway on chronic fatigue syndrome: Brain abnormalities pinpointed: Stanford researchers conducted an imaging study and …