As the percentage of Americans who smoke continues to drop (currently about 15 percent from a high of 44 percent in the 1950s), the tobacco industry …
Author: Jennie Dusheck
Research targeting ataxin 2 protein boosts hope for ALS treatment
A Stanford Medicine-led team of researchers has developed an approach for targeting and blocking the expression of a protein thought to contribute to the development …
Tiny bubbles raise hope for biopsy-free cancer diagnosis
A Stanford Medicine team has developed a compelling way to diagnose cancer without a biopsy. In the technique, patients are intravenously injected with bubbles a …
The bias hunters: Study explores where science goes wrong
It’s hard for even the most rigorous of scientists to argue with an elegant experimental design and a pretty result. But all too often, researchers …
False advertising? “Natural” cigarettes are bad for nature, Stanford researchers say
A trio of Stanford researchers has published an editorial in Tobacco Control, criticizing the makers of a brand of cigarettes for claiming to be environmentally …
Apparent inverse relationship between cancer and dementia disappears in new study
For decades, doctors suspected that dementia patients were less likely to get cancer than other people and, likewise, that cancer patients and survivors were less …
A Darwin Day delve into how the chipmunk got its stripes
This Sunday is Darwin Day, the 208th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birthday. As the great biologist Ernst Mayr wrote, "...no biologist has been responsible for …
Stanford librarians and volunteers help safeguard government data
If you want to make a history buff sigh, mention the Library of Alexandria, a center of learning that may have held hundreds of thousands …
Science gets political: The March for Science
Updated 2/1/17: The Washington D.C. march has been scheduled for April 22. *** 1/26/16: Last weekend’s post-inauguration Women’s March was one of the largest demonstrations in …
Science organization webinar warns of a “war on scientists”
With so much happening in the Trump administration, I jumped at the chance last week to listen to a webinar on the future of science under the new …
An inside look at immune cells might eventually shorten wait times for cancer patients
Anyone who has had an encounter with cancer knows about waiting. You have to wait for test results, wait for appointments and wait to see …
Stanford study shows wearable sensors can tell when you’re getting sick
When Mike Snyder, PhD, settled in for a long flight to Norway on a family vacation last year, he noticed changes in his heart rate …
Taking the brakes off science
A team of experts on how science works has issued a set of policies that could help accelerate science. Their article appears in the brand new scientific …
Major update for popular heart health app
If you haven’t made any resolutions for 2017, there’s still time to commit to improving your cardiovascular health. And a Stanford Medicine app can help …
A test for an autoimmune disease reveals what your cells are cooking up
Most of us know that the genetic information that makes us who we are is encoded in the DNA in our cells. But that information …
Research transparency depends on sharing computational tools, says John Ioannidis
A team of scientists including Stanford's John Ioannidis, MD, DSc, has proposed a set of principles to improve the transparency and reproducibility of computational methods used …