Technology that sends blood sugar-level updates to their smartphones improves outcomes for young people with type 1 diabetes, a Stanford trial shows.
Orthopedic surgeons recently developed a new device for lengthening kids' bones that greatly reduces the time, pain and infection risk that patients face. It's appealingly …
Five years ago, I wrote about the advent of a new interactive online video game, then called EteRNA (and now simply Eterna), that lets non-scientist …
Many academic researchers are tenacious, spending years in the lab studying the processes that lead to human diseases in hopes of developing treatments. But they …
Just because we can, does that mean we should? In a hard-hitting editorial in Science, three Stanford thinkers - Stanford microbe wizard David Relman, MD; synthetic …
Warning: This video could change the way you look at the world. So if you're willing, take the deep dive into this New Yorker magazine video and story, which capture …
The recent Stanford Genome Technology Center retreat drove home for me why it’s a great idea to put biochemists, geneticists, engineers, and physicians in a …
It’s a gadget straight out of Star Trek — a breath analyzer that may someday quickly and noninvasively detect everything from diabetes to cancers. In …
Small cell lung cancer is one of the most deadly kinds of cancers. Typically this aggressive disease is diagnosed fairly late in its course, and the …
Researchers in the U.K. have found a way to make growing synthetic tissue more sustainable. At present, the size of engineered tissues is limited because …
Our ability to technologically assess the brain has room for improvement, according to panelists at the recent Association of Health Care Journalism 2015 conference. Amit …
If your car battery runs out of juice, the car won't run, but that doesn't mean it's time to scrap the car. Similarly (at least …
How are drugs born? If you're really curious about this, you'd be fascinated by the weekly meetings of industry experts and academic researchers taking part …
Stanford molecular and cellular physiologist and structural biologist Chris Garcia, PhD, and his fellow scientists have tweaked together a set of molecular tools that work …
The Stanford Biodesign program recently posted 296 short education videos on medical technology innovation. From needs finding through business planning, it offers entrepreneurs hours of …
An animal study just published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows how, in the not-distant future, doctors may be able to not …
