Last week, the U.K. House of Commons voted to legalize a controversial in vitro fertilization technique called mitochondrial donation, popularly known as the “three-parent baby” …
Month: February 2015
Major genomics exhibit, staffed with Stanford volunteers, now open in San Jose
Last week I checked out the museum exhibit “Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code,” which just arrived at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose. Created …
C’mon, be heart healthy
Is your heart healthy? Are you at risk for heart disease? In recognition of American Heart Month, Stanford Health Care has launched a campaign to …
Medical student-turned-entrepreneur harnesses Google Glass to improve doctor-patient relationship
When third-year Stanford medical student Pelu Tran began clinical rotations and started caring for patients in the summer of 2012, he experienced firsthand how paperwork, …
Discussing how obesity and addiction share common neurochemistry
In a TEDMED talk published last week, renowned neuroscientist Nora Volkow, MD, discusses using insights from her research on drug addiction and brain chemistry to …
OPENPediatrics offers opportunity to help physicians, and sick children, worldwide
As chief of critical care at Boston Children's Hospital, Jeffrey Burns, MD, MPH, was asked to consult on the case of a young girl who …
Stanford professor encourages researchers to take gender into account
As a scientist, I'm trained to look for biases that can cause unreliable results. This is why I feel so disheartened every time I read about …
Fly through the inside of a mouse lung
Take a 50-second ride through the inside of an adult mouse lung in this video created by Rex Moats, PhD, scientific director at Children's Hospital …
New insulin-decreasing hormone discovered, named for goddess of starvation
Limos, the Greek goddess of starvation, must have relied on limostatin, the eponymous hormone recently discovered by Stanford researchers, to survive hunger. She was clearly …
A visual deluge may provide clues to ADHD treatment
It's time for Biomed Bites, a weekly feature that introduces readers to some of Stanford's most innovative researchers. Looking out my window, I see a …
Steven Brill’s Bitter Pill
A New York Times review called Steven Brill's book, America's Bitter Pill, "a thriller." Brill's tome on the building of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, …
The distinctly different brains of “SuperAgers”
Scientists are gaining insights into the cognitive abilities of "SuperAgers" and why their memories are more resilient against the ravages of time than are other older …
Comfort care: “We always have something to give”
SMS (“Stanford Medical School”) Unplugged is a forum for students to chronicle their experiences in medical school. The student-penned entries appear on Scope once a …
Study: Major psychiatric disorders share common deficits in brain’s executive-function network
Psychiatric disorders, traditionally distinguished from one another based on symptoms, may in reality not be as discrete as we think. In a huge meta-analysis just …
Can immune cells’ anomalous presence in brain explain delayed post-stroke dementia?
About every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. About one in three of those people will eventually suffer from dementia if …
Bio-X undergraduate student finds direction through research
Richie Sapp arrived to Stanford as an undergraduate already interested in studying neuroscience. After talking with several faculty members, he ended up working in the lab …