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Pushing the Buy Button "Do you prefer Pepsi or Coke?" used to be the big question when we were growing up: as kids, we fought for our favorite brand, claiming that Pepsi was too ... Read more |
Surgery In The Field “Saying ‘blood clot’ is not taught in most French classes,” said Professor Sherry Wren.Wren, a Professor of Surgery and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs at the Stanford University School of ... Read more |
Sky Monsters Two years ago, Professor Margot Gerritsen, Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering and, by courtesy, of Mechanical Engineering, undertook the challenge of creating a functional replica of an ancient giant, fying ... Read more |
Pitx1 Mutations Manatees gently paddling on the surface of warm waters have revealed a startling connection with fish and mice. These aquatic herbivores are mammals that evolved from four-legged ancestors into legless ... Read more |
Two-Photon Microscopy Try pressing a flashlight against your fingertip, and you’ll f nd that it produces an eerily pink glow reminiscent of E.T.’s glowing fingers. This phenomenon occurs because light can penetrate ... Read more |
The Protein Switch Recent advances made at Stanford University’s Departments of Chemistry and Chemical and Systems Biology will now allow scientists to control the function of a protein more rapidly through the administration ... Read more |
Sun Damage On a cloudy day, up to 80% of the sun’s rays can penetrate through clouds, mist and fog. On a snowy day, the snow acts as a mirror and refects ... Read more |
Scandals in Biomedical Research Fraudulent data published to substantiate the effectiveness of Merck & Co.’s painkiller Vioxx and stem cell line production in South Korea have undermined the public’s trust. Are unethical cases in ... Read more |
The Link between Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease What does Down Syndrome have in common with Alzheimer’s disease? Down Syndrome is a common genetic disorder that causes delayed physical and cognitive development from birth. It affects over 3... Read more |
The Invisible Polluter The next time you reach for that bottle of Advil or that cup of coffee as you try to fend off an on-setting headache and to gain a few more ... Read more |
Overcoming Obesity If you are sitting in a room right now with two other adults, statistically one of you should be overweight or obese. Obesity is a serious and growing health threat, ... Read more |
The Ticking of Internal Clocks Many organisms have circadian rhythms, internal clocks that are closely linked to the light-dark cycle of a day. Generally, if an organism’s internal clock is unsynchronized, it continues to live ... Read more |
Putting the 'Me' Back in Medicine Western medicine has progressed significantly since its humble beginnings, when doctors carrying their tool bags would travel to patients’ houses by horse and buggy or even on foot. Early physicians ... Read more |
When Immune Systems Attack We are surrounded by microbes bent on using us as their own incubators. Our only defense is our immune system. Without the intricately woven meshwork of defenders, our bodies would ... Read more |
Science in vitro Stanford’s Clark Center is the biggest experiment on campus. Nestled between the sleek structures of the engineering quad and the expansive buildings of the medical center, it is the home ... Read more |
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