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Hunting for the origins of depression
Stanford psychologist Ian Gotlib is examining how depression develops and working to identify potential opportunities for intervention.
New analysis examines the importance of location in the opioid crisis
A team of economists have examined the importance of location and opioid prevalence to help tease out the relative importance of supply in the epidemic.
Promoting gender diversity in research
A new paper outlines strategies to promote gender diversity in research teams, which can also generate new questions, techniques and results.
An interdisciplinary future for ChEM-H: Catching up with Carolyn Bertozzi
Carolyn Bertozzi, the co-director of Stanford's interdisciplinary program ChEM-H, reflects here on the program and her goals for the future.
Summer med program embraces low-income students’ potential
The no-cost Stanford Medical Youth Science Program helps aspiring low-income teens begin their journey toward careers in the medical and health sciences.
Take your places, Stanford Medicine graduates
Graduation for Stanford Medicine MD, PhD, and MS students will be held this Saturday. Check in on social media to follow along.
Living with a brain injury: Survivors tell their stories
A brain injury can happen in an instant. Full recovery takes longer. Survivors spoke of challenges and hope at a Stanford symposium.
A better way to test for HIV: Translate it into DNA
There are easy ways to test for HIV, and there are reliable ways, but easy and reliable? That's hard to come by — but perhaps not for long.
Class allows students to engineer the sense of touch to help others
Stanford undergraduate students showcase devices they created, including a high-tech version of the game Operation and something called "Haptic Headband."
Keeping snails in check could significantly reduce parasitic worm infections
Stanford research suggests a new way to significantly curtail cases of schistosomiasis, one of the most common afflictions in the developing world.
On transitions and identity: A reflection by Stanford’s Philip Pizzo
Philip Pizzo, MD, began planning for life after medicine before he had barely begun to work as a doctor. As a resident in pediatrics, Pizzo, …
False advertising? “Natural” cigarettes are bad for nature, Stanford researchers say
A trio of Stanford researchers has published an editorial in Tobacco Control, criticizing the makers of a brand of cigarettes for claiming to be environmentally …
Stanford researchers exploring consequences of Tuskegee syphilis study
I first learned about the secret U.S. government syphilis study conducted on poor black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, during a college class on ethics. The …
Immunotherapy: New hope in treating cancer
There's a new kid on the block in cancer treatment. Actually it's an old kid who's been around for awhile but is being heralded …
Countdown to Big Data in Biomedicine: How gamers have advanced the RNA field
How does a "slightly bananas side project" (his words) in a biochemist's lab help accelerate researchers’ understanding of RNA? During last year's Big Data in Biomedicine conference, Stanford biochemist Rhiju …