2023 - present
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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
November 17, 2024
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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
September 19, 2024
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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.
January 17, 2024
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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.
December 15, 2023
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Prisons are stealth incubators for tuberculosis
Jason Andrews explains why tracking and treating tuberculosis in prisons is critical to combating the disease worldwide.
July 20, 2023
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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.
July 19, 2023
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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.
July 10, 2023
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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
July 07, 2023
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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
June 28, 2023
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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.
June 08, 2023
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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
June 01, 2023
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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
May 09, 2023
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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
April 18, 2023
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‘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
March 22, 2023
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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?
March 13, 2023
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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.
March 03, 2023
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Gene identified that governs defensive spines in stickleback fish
Finding by Stanford researchers supports the concept of progressive evolution in nature
September 01, 2022
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New findings on long COVID lingering in the gut
People with mild to moderate COVID-19 can shed viral RNA in their feces months after initial infection, Stanford researchers find
April 13, 2022