2023 - present

Snow leopards’ low genetic diversity puts future at risk

Beyond Darwin: Exploring the evolving science of evolution with Marcus Feldman

Modern science has shown that evolution is far more complex than the passing on of traits through genes. A new book offers fresh perspectives on organisms’ significant variance in

Can captive tigers be part of the effort to save wild populations?

Using DNA from rescued captive tigers in the U.S., Stanford researchers have developed a genetic reference panel that can help identify tigers suitable for conservation and prosecu

New study reveals genes that ‘don’t play well together’ in swordtail fish hybrids, driving the development of distinct species

The researchers have identified genes involved in hybrid incompatibility, a phenomenon that raises reproductive barriers between species and evolutionarily splits them apart.

Fungi and future forest health

New research from Stanford suggests climate change will disrupt many age-old partnerships between aspen trees and fungi that are essential to healthy forests.

Prisons are stealth incubators for tuberculosis

Jason Andrews explains why tracking and treating tuberculosis in prisons is critical to combating the disease worldwide.

Stanford Medicine researchers take part in HuBMAP, showing what healthy human tissue looks like

Stanford Medicine scientists describe details of the human intestine and placental tissue as part of the National Institute of Health’s Human Biomolecular Atlas Program.

Insight into African American ancestry

New approach to genetic ancestry developed by Stanford researchers provides estimates of the number of African and European genealogical ancestors in typical family trees.

Cancer’s origin story features predictable plot line, Stanford Medicine researchers find

Human cells evolving in the laboratory undergo a series of predictable, sequential genetic changes that lead to pre-cancer. Blocking these changes may allow intervention before can

New method offers unprecedented detail in tracking protein activity in living cells

Intent on recording the complete journeys of proteins through different areas of cells – or between separate cells – researchers led by Stanford’s Alice Ting have devised a new tag

Stanford course delves into the history and biology of chili peppers

A course on chili peppers covers history, anthropology, biology, and culture, and includes a visit to a specialty pepper farm in East Palo Alto.

Personalized PSA levels could improve prostate cancer screening

The solution to the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of prostate cancer could lie in every man’s genome. Stanford Medicine researchers take a step toward genetically personalized ca

Mediterranean diet’s cellular effects revealed

Fat from olive oil and nuts boosts the numbers of two key cellular structures and protects membranes from damage, lengthening the lives of laboratory worms, Stanford Medicine-led s

Antibiotics after breast cancer linked to poorer survival, Stanford Medicine-led study finds

Triple-negative breast cancer patients who used antibiotics within three years of diagnosis have an increased risk of death, according to a study. The gut microbiome is a likely li

‘Two-Eyed Seeing’ off the California coast

A new research partnership will combine Indigenous and scientific knowledge to monitor marine life in a sacred tribal region that may be a bellwether of how native species will far

Stanford researcher sees evolutionary math in March Madness basketball

If all the games in a single-elimination sports tournament are played sequentially in the same arena, in how many possible sequences can the games be played?

Michael Snyder: Insights from medicine’s most-measured man

A geneticist explains why he collects vast stores of his own biodata and what all that information might reveal about our personal health.

Gene identified that governs defensive spines in stickleback fish

Finding by Stanford researchers supports the concept of progressive evolution in nature