I've previously written about how muscle stem cells rev their engines in response to a distant injury, like drag cars at the starting line of …
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Artificial skin and flexible cell phones – coming soon?
We've written in the past about the work of Stanford chemical engineer Zhenan Bao, PhD, who last year created a super stretchy material that can be used …
How Campaign for Stanford Medicine dollars are empowering biomedical innovation
The Biomedical Innovation Initiative at Stanford Medicine was created to ignite innovation in today’s challenging funding climate for biomedical research. In this short video, Dean Lloyd Minor, …
Stanford team’s image of starfish larva wins top honor
A wildlife photographer once told me that that for every 1,000 photos he takes, he usually gets about three good images. That, he said, is how …
Stanford postdoctoral fellow creates “resistor hat” for March for Science
Although many politicians invoke scientific studies to support their views, scientists are often reticent to become involved in politics. Heidi Arjes, PhD, a Stanford postdoctoral …
Stanford expert: Don’t eliminate “one of the most effective tools we have to fight global diseases”
When President Donald Trump released his budget blueprint earlier this month, he included an 18 percent (or $5.8 billion) reduction in funding for the National …
In latest Dean’s Lecture, The New Yorker writer urges scientists to share their stories
“We’re at an inflection point in terms of what we can do with science — and how close we are to letting it all slip …
Health journalists focus heavily on initial, positive studies that may be refuted, says study
Will people read about null research findings? And are such findings news? These are critical questions facing health reporters, because news coverage often influences how people …
On science literacy and denialism: A Q&A with journalist Michael Specter
As a journalist for the Washington Post, the New York Times, and most recently, The New Yorker, Michael Specter has written about seemingly everything. He's covered the debate over genetically …
Immigration ban harms health and biomedical research, Dean Lloyd Minor writes
Biomedicine depends on the free flow of people and ideas, Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of Stanford's medical school, wrote in a commentary appearing today on …
Honoring women and girl scientists
In honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a look now at some of those who inspire us -- and a call …
Science-related Supreme Court cases to watch in 2017
When I was in grad school, scientists tended to be more interested in p-values than politics. Now, as change becomes the new norm under the …
Stanford librarians and volunteers help safeguard government data
If you want to make a history buff sigh, mention the Library of Alexandria, a center of learning that may have held hundreds of thousands …
Science gets political: The March for Science
Updated 2/1/17: The Washington D.C. march has been scheduled for April 22. *** 1/26/16: Last weekend’s post-inauguration Women’s March was one of the largest demonstrations in …
Science organization webinar warns of a “war on scientists”
With so much happening in the Trump administration, I jumped at the chance last week to listen to a webinar on the future of science under the new …
Too few women scientists are invited to review academic journal manuscripts
As a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, I reviewed manuscripts for several academic science journals and acted as an editor for an engineering journal. …