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Stanford anesthesiologist explores consciousness – and unconsciousness
Anesthesiologist Divya Chander, MD, PhD, is one of a leading group of neuroscientists and anesthesiologists who are using high-tech monitoring equipment in the operating room …
"The child is father of the man": Exploring developmental origins of health and disease
Among scientific communities, there is a small but growing segment of research concerned with "DOHaD" - the developmental origins of health and disease. The work …
"A lot more data" needed to determine what makes supercentenarians live so long
Scientists from Stanford and elsewhere have been hunting for a genetic explanation for extreme longevity for the past four years and are realizing that it …
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 …
Breaking through scientific barriers: Stanford hosts 2015 Breakthrough Prize winners
Young scientists, I have good news: Nearly all of the 2015 winners of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences pledged to devote at least some …
More than just glue, glial cells challenge neuron's top slot
Welcome to this week's Biomed Bites, a weekly feature that highlights some of Stanford's most innovative research and introduces Scope readers to innovators in a …
Using dance to explain science
Circus enthusiast and University of Georgia PhD candidate Uma Nagendra used her aerial talent to create this year's winning "Dance Your PhD" video. The contest …
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 …
Using "nanobullets" for good – not evil
My husband, a big science fiction fan, perked up the other day when I told him I was writing a medical science story about nanotechnology. …
Luminous mouse brain among photomicrography competition winners
Nikon announced the winners of its annual Small World Photomicrography Competition yesterday, and among the group was this stunning image. The photo was taken by …
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 …
A look at NIH’s new rules for gender balance in biomedical studies
In May, Francis Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes of Health, co-authored a Comment piece in Nature, outlining new requirements for biomedical researchers …
DNA architecture fascinates Stanford researcher – and dictates biological outcomes
It's time for the next edition of Biomed Bites, a weekly feature that highlights some of Stanford's most innovative research and introduces Scope readers to …
Shake up research rewards to improve accuracy, says Stanford's John Ioannidis
Lab animals such as mice and rats can be trained to press a particular lever or to exhibit a certain behavior to get a coveted …
Paradox: Antibiotics may increase contagion among Salmonella-infected animals
Make no mistake: Antibiotics have worked wonders, increasing human life expectancy as have few other public-health measures (let's hear it for vaccines, folks). But about …