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Spotlights
A Synergistic View of the Genetics Behind Liver Cancer
Hannah Landecker’s Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies
Making the Bay Area HepB Free
A Passion for Service
Office of Science Outreach Welcomes High School Students and Teachers to Stanford Labs
Funding Innovation - Two Stanford Professors Win the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award
The New Major in Atmosphere/Energy
Biology and Chemistry
Accelerating Genetic Analysis from Two Weeks to Two Hours - Microfluidic Digital PCR as a Method for Prenatal Aneuploidy Detection
The Exaggerated Recovery of Gray Whales - Modern DNA provides a New Perspective on Historical Population Estimates
The Wonderful World of Cilia - A Role as Tiny Pressure Sensors for Bone
Creating a Dreamscape - Lucid Dreams Shed Light on Human Consciousness
Mapping the Brain’s Response to Music - fMRI Studies of Musical Expectations
CompSci, Engineering, and Design
Voyage to the Moon: Stanford Researchers Compete for the Lunar X PRIZE
Microfluidic Isolation Chambers: Capturing the Genetic Makeup of Elusive Bacteria with a Novel Microfluidic Chip
Cancer Therapy using Carbon Nanotubes: Targeted Delivery of Drugs
Vowel Play with Algorithms: Helping Humans and Computers Learn Baby Talk
Robots Take to the Streets: Junior and the DARPA Urban Challenge
Ethics, Environment, and Society
The Future of Research Universities: Are institutions such as Stanford keeping pace with today’s changing economy?
Is Your Weight the Government’s Business?: The Call for Government Regulations in Preventing Obesity
The Nuclear Board Game: Terrorists in the Nuclear Era
The Building Blocks of Climate Science: Stanford’s Multidisciplinary Team of Researchers Collaborate with the IPCC
Common Ground between Fishermen and Environmentalists: The Implementation of California’s Marine Life Protection Act
Standing Up for Children: Stanford Pediatricians Advocate the State Children’s Health Insurance Program
To Allow or Deny?: Opposing Views on Access to Experimental Drugs
Principles of Educational Resource Distribution: Adequacy versus Equity
The Irony in Charitable Giving: Tax Policy Effects on Two Nearby School Districts
Medicine and Health
A New Future for Cancer Diagnosis - The Development of a Protease-Specific Fluorescent Probe
Allergy or Anti-Allergy? - Novel Functions of Mast Cells
Physics
Breaking the Secret of the Quantum Computer: Blueprints for an Ultrafast, Optically-Controlled Quantum Computer