Much has been written about calculating your BMI (or body mass index, the relationship between your height to your weight) and what it might indicate …
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Biodesign program welcomes last class from India
In January, three fellows from India arrived to Stanford to join the Biodesign program, which immerses clinicians, scientists, engineers and business people in the biodesign …
The medical benefits of a little chemistry know-how
I've been writing about medical science for close to 20 years now, and in that time I shudder to think how often I’ve written …
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 …
Hope for the globby thing inside our skulls
While at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, neuroscientists Tony Wyss-Coray, PhD, and Amit Etkin, MD, PhD, had a webcast conversation with NPR …
Neurosciences get the limelight at Davos
Four faculty from the Stanford Neurosciences Institute have been in Davos for the past few days attending the World Economic Forum along with world leaders …
Science Friday-style podcast explains work toward a universal flu vaccine
I had the pleasure of teaching a class this fall to a group of mostly chemistry and chemical engineering graduate students, helping them improve their …
Graduate student explains pain research in two-minute video
Earlier this year I wrote about some fascinating research from the lab of chemist Justin Du Bois, PhD, who has been working with naturally occurring toxins …
Building a bridge between education and neuroscience
It wasn't long ago that my kids could barely identify all the letters in the alphabet and now I have to yell at them to …
Illustration from 1881 resolves century-old brain controversy
These days, a person can get through graduate school in the sciences practically without touching a physical publication. Most journals are available online going back …
The slippery slope toward "a dangerous dependence on facts"
The ever-funny Andy Borowitz has written in The New Yorker about a previously unreported challenge in the fight against Ebola: It might make Americans believe …
Stanford expert responds to questions about brain repair and the future of neuroscience
One cool thing about being at Stanford is access to really, really smart people. Case in point, I get to work with William Newsome, PhD, …
Drug helps old brains learn new tricks, and heal
Our brains go through remarkably flexible periods in childhood when they can form new connections in a flash and retain information at a rate that …
Miniature wireless device aids pain studies
Here’s one thing I didn’t know: For every person who goes to the doctor to be treated for chronic pain, less than a half get …
Neuroscientists dream big, come up with ideas for prosthetics, mental health, stroke and more
So there you are, surrounded by some of the smartest neuroscientists (and associated engineers, biologists, physicists, economists and lawyers) in the world, and you ask …
Federal BRAIN Initiative funds go to create better sensors for recording the brain's activity
Updated 10-2-14: A quote from Schnitzer was added to the post. *** 10-1-14: Yesterday the National Institutes of Health handed out the first $46 million in funding …