Luqman Hodgkinson, PhD, describes his work to enhance medical opportunities in his native Kenya in this Stars of Stanford Medicine Q&A.
Author: Alizeh Ahmad
Stars of Stanford Medicine: Poetry lover and aspiring physician-scientist
This Stars of Stanford Medicine Q&A features Elizabeth Beam, a MD-PhD student who hopes to help patients with mental illness.
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This Stars of Stanford Medicine Q&A features Massa Shoura, a postdoc who studies genome architecture.
Study offers insight into how aspirin lowers risk of colon cancer and cardiovascular disease
The use of aspirin for pain relief can be traced back to the end of the 19th century, or perhaps the beginning of the 20th …
Coping with change: Be present, take time to grieve and reach out for help
Cultivating mental and emotional well-being is no easy task. And just when you think you've found some happiness, a jarring change intrudes. Your boss quits, …
Coping behaviors traced to structural changes in brain, study finds
In the face of social disruption, rats created fewer brain cells in the hippocampus and showed a preference for familiar rats, researchers at Princeton University …
Video provides behind-the-scenes look at unusual transport protein
For science geeks out there, this video offers a glimpse of a key protein tasked with transporting vitamin A into cells, and provides a unique …
In a good mood? Take advantage and do something unpleasant but necessary
A new study suggests that emotions play a natural regulatory role in our ability to sacrifice immediate pleasure for long-term benefit. Psychology professor James Gross, …
Additional food supplementation could prevent thousands of birth defects, researchers say
Adequate folic acid consumption during pregnancy is known to lower the risk of two serious birth defects: spina bifida, a spinal defect, and anencephaly, absence of …
Evidence for “mother’s curse” — a quirk of evolution — found in flies
Quick genetics primer: In nearly all mammals, offspring receive one set of genes from their mother, one set from their father -- even-steven. This genetic …
Analysis of bacteria spanning 50,000 generations offers new insights on evolution
Mutations in bacterial genomes are thought to occur at a relatively fixed rate, with a random mix of helpful, harmful and neutral mutations. But a study …
High-volume transplant centers save lives, and money
It's old news that transplant patients fare better at centers that perform many transplants. But now, a team led by Joshua Mooney, MD, a Stanford instructor …