This "In the Spotlight" features Ross Venook, a bioengineer who discusses his career path and his life as a busy father and husband outside of work.
A new wireless system developed by Stanford engineers detects health indicators like pulse and respiration from the skin via wearable stickers.
Stanford researchers discover a gel that, when applied to animal hearts, vastly reduces the formation of adhesions, scar tissue that cause complications.
Stanford researchers, seeking ways to regenerate muscle after injury, find a promising method using collagen and vascular cells.
Stanford researchers are collaborating to develop a vibrating glove that could improve hand function following a stroke if worn for several hours a day.
Itching to help combat the scourge of mosquito-borne diseases? I've got just the thing: Abuzz. The crowd-sourced project birthed in the lab of Stanford's Manu …
Current imaging technologies like MRI, CT scans and ultrasound provide valuable views inside the body, but each has drawbacks. MRIs require patients to remain still …
One of the most important things I’ve learned as a writer is that every good story has an even better backstory. So when I heard …
Henry Ford, the father of the first affordable automobile, once said, “I will build a motor car for the great multitude... constructed of the best …
Obtaining compounds from nature, such as opioids from poppies or taxol from yew trees, is hard and time-consuming. So researchers, including Stanford's Christina Smolke, PhD, are …
In many regions, mosquitos are basically flying disease distributors. Bed nets and pharmaceuticals save lives, but to support additional advances — from environmental controls such …
A 20-cent, hand-powered blood centrifuge invented at Stanford is included in STAT’s bracket-style contest to find the best innovation in science and medicine. Just like the …
Inspired by a whirligig toy, Stanford bioengineering professor Manu Prakash, PhD, and his students have designed a centrifuge from paper, twine and plastic that can …
I must admit, this video made me squirm. In it, Mehmet Kurt, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow in bioengineering, repeatedly triggers a helmet-covered dummy head …
Stanford is one of three Bay Area universities to participate in a new collaboration announced today by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. That’s the initiative created …
Nearly half of our medicines are obtained from nature and many are derived from plants. We're fortunate to have plants that synthesize medicines for us, but …
