As the Delta variant drives a nationwide surge in COVID-19 cases, the importance of vaccines in preventing illness and death from the disease has become increasingly clear. That's why Stanford...
Future historians will mark the development of the two-dose mRNA vaccines as a turning point in our global fight against COVID-19. The vaccines, which use an oily coating of nanoparticles...
Even cells need a rest sometimes. In 2017, I had the privilege of writing about what was then a relatively new therapy for leukemia called CAR-T cell therapy. The therapy...
As she watched the pandemic unfold, Stanford Medicine immunology researcher Zina Good, PhD, said she followed the coronavirus infection trends among children with growing alarm. She watched as more kids...
A comparison of twins with and without food allergies has uncovered distinct differences in the fecal bacteria of allergic and non-allergic individuals. The study, a collaboration between Stanford Medicine and...
Stanford University researchers, led by biochemist Peter Kim, PhD, have begun developing a new vaccine candidate for COVID-19 that doesn't need to be kept cold for storage or shipping, and...
...half a million pairs of tonsils are removed, destined for disposal as medical waste. But a group of scientists led by Stanford systems-immunology pioneer Mark Davis, PhD, has changed that...
...for a COVID-19 vaccine (2020) When I talked early this summer with pathology, microbiology and immunology professor Bali Pulendran, PhD, there were about 100 COVID-19 vaccines under development. Now that...
What seemed impossible an eyeblink ago is now a reality. Amazingly, not one but two COVID-19 vaccines -- from Pfizer and Moderna, respectively -- are spilling out of the chute...
...study of bat ecology, blood and immunology and genetic similarities between it and other viruses. Nipah virus comes and goes with the seasons As the Q&A explains, the team discovered...
Early on the morning of March 3, I got a call from my editor: "It sounds like Stanford is about to launch its own COVID-19 test. We need a story."...
...care and society at large. In one example, David Lewis, MD, a professor of pediatrics, immunology and allergy, and his colleagues are harnessing CRISPR-Cas9 (the Nobel-winning gene-editing technology) to prime the...
In late 2008, infamous financial fraudster Bernie Madoff was found to have bilked local acquaintances and far-flung celebrities alike out of multiple billions of bucks. For maybe six months or...
When my editors asked me to describe how Stanford Medicine faced the challenges of the early days and months of the coronavirus pandemic in Stanford Medicine magazine, I quailed. My...
The country's pediatricians have called for new COVID-19 vaccines to be appropriately vetted for safety and efficacy for everyone, including children, according to a recent letter sent to Alex Azar,...
The coronavirus has caused a significant health crisis in California's prisons. As of this writing, there are about 99,000 people incarcerated in the state, and more than 8,300 of them...
