Luqman Hodgkinson, PhD, describes his work to enhance medical opportunities in his native Kenya in this Stars of Stanford Medicine Q&A.
This Stars of Stanford Medicine Q&A features Elizabeth Beam, a MD-PhD student who hopes to help patients with mental illness.
This Stars of Stanford Medicine Q&A features Massa Shoura, a postdoc who studies genome architecture.
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
