A recent Stanford News article stopped me in the first paragraph with its line, "One in 50 people can't recognize faces." That's a huge number of people, including, …
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Screening for diseases doesn’t necessarily save lives, study shows
It seems like it should work: If everyone was tested for every disease, lives would be saved, right? These conditions would be spotted quickly, treated …
Golden years? Researcher explores longevity research and the companies banking on its success
Although I haven't had a birthday yet this year, the transition to writing 2015 on all my checks (whoops, did I just date myself there? …
Gates Foundation makes bold moves toward open access publication of grantee research
Last week, the Gates Foundation announced that it will now require all grantees to make the results of their research publicly accessible immediately. Researchers will …
Illustration from 1881 resolves century-old brain controversy
These days, a person can get through graduate school in the sciences practically without touching a physical publication. Most journals are available online going back …
Figuring out a parasite's secrets – insights from studying Toxoplasma gondii
Welcome to Biomed Bites, a weekly feature that highlights some of Stanford’s most innovative research and introduces Scope readers to innovators in a variety of …
Putting biomedical research under the microscope
As an immunology PhD student in the late 1990s, I spent countless hours hunched over cages on the lab bench analyzing the immune cells of …
Nature tracks 100 most-cited scientific papers
After a researcher painstakingly collects the data, analyzes it, sweats over the manuscript that describes the findings, and finds a journal to publish it, a …
Blond ambition: Delving into the work of Stanford biologist David Kingsley
Thanks to a tiny fish called the stickleback, Stanford developmental biologist David Kingsley, PhD, and his team uncovered the genetic basis for blond hair earlier …
Tiny fruit flies as powerful diabetes model
Fruit flies in your kitchen are unquestionably annoying. But the next time you're trying to bat one out of the air around your too-ripe apples …
Melting pot or mosaic? International collaboration studies genomic diversity in Mexico
Mexico is a vast country with a storied past. Indigenous Native American groups across the country maintain their own languages and culture, while its cosmopolitan …
It's a blond thing: Stanford researchers suss out molecular basis of hair color
It's all over the news today: Blonds aren't stupid. Well, that's what most of the media would have you believe is the take-home message of …
New Stanford center aims to promote research excellence
Updated 4-24-14: The center founders discuss METRICS in this just-posted 1:2:1 podcast. *** 4-23-14: Stanford has a new center, called the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford, …
In men, a high testosterone count can mean a low immune response
Men have deeper voices and tons more facial and body hair than women. They are (usually) bigger, stronger, and much more likely to risk their …
New genetic study: More evidence for modern Ashkenazi Jews’ ancient Hebrew patrimony
I hail from the so-called Ashkenazi branch of Jews, who account for the great majority of all Jews in the world today. Ashkenazis are distinguished …
On the hunt for ancient DNA, Stanford researchers improve the odds
On the surface, it's perfect Halloween fodder: Ancient Peruvian mummies, Bronze and Iron Age human teeth from Bulgaria and a thousands-of-years old hair sample from …