For those looking to re-live the excitement of Stanford's Brian Kobilka, MD, being named a co-recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, head over …
Category: Medical Research
Dance Your Dissertation: Vote for your favorite finalist
This week of Nobel Prize excitement is also the season of some other less-heralded scientific contests, including my personal favorite, the "Dance your PhD" contest …
Stanford’s Brian Kobilka wins 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Updated 1:57 PM: We've included on our website some thoughts and congratulatory remarks from Kobilka's colleagues. I quite like what Andrew Fire, PhD, who won a Nobel in …
Examining how scientific advances can mediate our relationship with the material world
There's an interesting perspective piece on the Wellcome Collection blog today about a robotic system called Rex that allows wheelchair-users to stand, walk and climb …
Study: Expiration dates have nothing to do with shelf life of drugs
I'm one of those people who regularly goes through the medicine cabinet looking for expired medications to toss out. But a new study published in …
Using smartphone medical images to evaluate patients from afar
Recent findings from the Mayo Clinic offer evidence supporting the use of smartphones to view medical images and diagnose patients from afar. For the Stroke study (.pdf), researchers …
Nature highlights the life of a paper, in video
This is pretty cool: Nature, which receives more than 10,000 manuscripts annually, has released a video describing how scientific research moves from the lab to the journal. …
Elephants chat a bit before departing water hole, new Stanford research shows
Field biologist Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell, PhD, has an up-close-and-personal relationship with elephants living in the wilds of Africa. She has spent decades of summers hunkered down in …
Study: Medical warnings for unfit drivers reduce traffic crashes
An estimated 1.2 million people die from traffic crashes worldwide each year, and one-third of drivers involved in serious crashes suffer from a chronic medical …
Countdown to Medicine X: Sourcing data for clinical research from online social networks
This week, the Stanford Medicine X conference kicks off on campus. Among the speakers presenting in the research track is Utah University Postdoctoral Fellow Carlos …
What's holding women in the sciences back?
I read with interest today a Guardian blog entry on the gender gap that exists in the life sciences. Writer Jenny Rohn does a great job …
How the cheetah gets its… stripes? Stanford geneticist cracks the code
Cheetahs with stripes? Tabby cats with blotches? Researchers in the laboratory of Stanford geneticist Greg Barsh, MD, PhD, have pinpointed the cause of the unique …
Stanford researcher comments on the use of human embryonic stem cells to restore hearing
Findings published today in Nature describe how a team of researchers used human embryonic stem cells to enable deaf rodents to hear again. Researchers hope that …
The importance of including risk information in ads for over-the-counter medications
Findings published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association show that when prescription medications become available over-the-counter, advertisements for the products are less likely …
Image of the Week: Neurosphere sending out processes
This otherworldy image depicts a neurosphere composed of neural precursor cells as captured by a fluorescent microscope. The photo comes from the California Institute for …
Stanford filmakers' documentary on rare diseases to air next week on KQED
Next week, KQED will air two showings of RARE, a feature documentary that provides a closer look at the relationships between patients, advocacy groups and …