Stress is an inevitable part of daily life and sometimes it can feel as though you might crack under the pressure. While you may never …
Author: Marissa Fessenden
Image of the Week: Pages from a medical illustrator's sketchbook
Here a human heart takes shape in the pages of medical illustrator Sayaka Isowa's sketchbook. She writes: "Since childhood I had a passion for drawing …
Rediscovered report details Lincoln's final hours
As has been covered widely in the news, a researcher hunting through the National Archives for letters by Abraham Lincoln recently uncovered a doctor's report …
Researchers find neurons fire rhythmically to create movement
Reaching out to touch an object is a simple task, but how our brain coordinates that movement has proved tricky for scientists to decipher. Scientists …
Cultivating the human microbiome
In a sense, our body is not our own. Microbes living in and around us outnumber our own human cells ten to one. A review …
Meet the filmmakers behind "The Power of Two"
The story of Anabel Stenzel and Isabel Stenzel Byrnes, twins born with cystic fibrosis, is now getting the silver screen (or liquid crystal, if you …
Image of the Week: Seeing the blind spot
These multicolored tentacles are actually blood vessels emerging from an eye's blind spot. Also called the optic disc, this is the spot where the optic …
A call for safe sex awareness to combat HIV in China
So far, the spread of HIV in China has remained at levels less than one-fifth that of Europe and the United States, but now researchers …
Image of the Week: Anatomical typewriter assemblage
This gorgeously detailed human head and shoulders was created by Oakland-based artist Jeremy Mayer. He writes: I disassemble typewriters and then reassemble them into full-scale, …
A closer look at Asian American health
Major gaps in our understanding of health disparities and their causes still exist, and one population often overlooked is Asian Americans. Now, a 5-year, $2 …
Researchers create rewritable digital storage in DNA
Scientists at Stanford have invented a way to store, erase and code digital data in the DNA of living cells. Bioengineers used enzymes from bacteria …
Image of the Week: Regina Holliday's Medicine X
In this richly-colored painting, artist and patient-rights activist Regina Holliday depicts central themes of the upcoming Stanford Medicine X conference. On the artist's blog she explains: In the …
Google-like algorithm may reveal better biomarkers for cancer
Google's PageRank algorithm sorts search results by relevance and now researchers are using a similar strategy to sift through thousands of proteins that affect the …
A critical look at the difficulty of publishing "negative" results
Science is supposed to work like this: A researcher tests a question with an experiment, produces results of the experiment and publishes the work so it can be …
A closer look at the woman who moved a robotic arm with her mind
As has been widely reported today, paralyzed patients for the first time have moved a robotic arm using only their brain activity. In a small clinical …
Image of the Week: Body Oddities
This intriguing image of a torso as a cabinet-of-wonders is called "Body Oddities 2." The artwork is part of a series by Kelsey Niziolek. According …