As the mama of a toddler, I'm a first-rate color spotter. "Look!" I say enthusiastically. "Could you get the yellow cup?" Or the blue block, …
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Patching up diabetic ulcers
Like the more than 29 million people in the U.S, my mother has diabetes. Her eldest sister and my maternal grandmother both died of complications …
Bioethicist Arthur Caplan slams unproven stem cell clinics
As my colleague reported, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has been forced to shutter the portion of its patient education website "A …
Grand Roundup: Top posts for the week of Sept. 20
The five most-read posts on Scope this week were: Do you have the chocolate gene? Study hints consumer preferences may be inherited: A study by …
Project Roadmap: Mysteries of the epigenome revealed
Let's hear it for large, international collaborations! Hot on the heels of the ENCODE Project (well, in research time anyway) comes the National Institutes of …
When business models and budgets collide
A Los Angeles Times article today hosts an extraordinary collision of two modern classic narratives: The University of California budget crisis and the search for …
“Are we there yet?” Exploring the promise, and the hype, of longevity research
The days are getting longer, and it's no longer dark outside when I drop my teenager at school for her early-bird class. I appreciate the …
Petri dish gets a 21st century upgrade
Petri dishes, while not the most exciting pieces of laboratory equipment, play an important role in the process of cell culture, where researchers grow cells …
Hormone could prevent 10,000 preterm births per year
In case you missed it, today's print edition of the New York Times reports on a study of a new hormone treatment that could prevent …
Israel aims to lure back scientists, reverse "brain drain"
Israel is taking a step to reverse the trend of academic professionals leaving the country to work abroad: the government just announced a $350 million …
Stanford scientists develop a "remote control" for cellular machinery
A paper appearing today in Science describes a really cool Stanford innovation in molecular biology: a technique that will let scientists turn on proteins inside …
Drooling over Open Lab 2010
I have to confess, I'm a little distracted today by the release of Open Lab 2010. The book is an anthology of some of the …
Science video phenom concludes graduate career, videos at Stanford
Alex Dainis, who produces popular science videos, has wrapped up her graduate work at Stanford and is moving on to a career in science communication.
Alex Dainis, who produces popular science videos, has wrapped up her graduate work at Stanford and is moving on to a career in science communication.
How efficient should medicine be in the business sense?
Marya Zilberberg, MD, wonders on KevinMD about how efficient medicine should be: ...I worry that in our traditional American single-minded zeal we will go overboard …
The positives whisper: Thoughts on gratitude from an emergency medicine physician
Emergency medicine physician Al’ai Alvarez discusses how he integrates gratitude into his daily life and its many widespread benefits.
Emergency medicine physician Al’ai Alvarez discusses how he integrates gratitude into his daily life and its many widespread benefits.
Rare African genes might reduce risks to pregnant women and their infants
When Hugo Hilton began working at Stanford as a young researcher several years ago, his supervisor set him to work on a minor problem so …