Amy Adams
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My measles story: The importance of protecting the most vulnerable
Writer Amy Adams reflects on her own experience with measles, and her lingering fears that she may have spread the virus to someone who was vulnerable. → Read More
Pond-dwelling microbes swim in polygons to avoid increased light
A bioengineering lab has found that Euglena, a microscopic organism that has been studied for hundreds of years, swims in precise polygons when exposed to increased light intensity. → Read More
Technology for typing with brain signals could allow paralyzed people to communicate
The typing in this video is driven directly by brain signals in a monkey (yes, monkeys typing Shakespeare!). It's one of a series of studies testing technology → Read More
Stanford Biodesign: A Focus On Saving Lives Without Increasing Costs
Here’s a conundrum: Medical technology saves lives every day, but it has also been one of the key drivers of health-care cost increases. How do you get the → Read More
Stanford researchers develop a new target for immunotherapy: sugars
Cancer immunotherapies have been big news in the past few years, particularly after former President Jimmy Carter’s melanoma was successfully treated with one → Read More
New award rewards reproducing existing research
The first research paper to describe a new phenomenon gets all the glory. A high profile publication. A great line on the scientist’s CV. Another step toward → Read More
New Technology Reveals Surprise Immune System Discovery
This story would be a simple tale of helpful new technology – of which I've written a lot – but it also goes to show how new technology can reveal fundamentally → Read More
Helping Bridge The Divide Between Engineers And Neuroscientists
I write a lot about the various ways that faculty at Stanford collaborate, often between schools and departments that speak very different academic languages. → Read More
Scientists create ‘guided chemotherapy missiles’ that target cancer cells, spare healthy ones
Latching chemotherapy drugs onto proteins that seek out tumors could provide a new way of treating tumors in the brain or with limited blood supply that are hard to reach with traditional chemotherapy. → Read More
Filtering pollution one nostril at a time
Last year I followed a team of Biodesign fellows from India as they spent six months at Stanford learning the biodesign process: identifying medical needs and → Read More
X-rays probe structure of potential cancer drug
Here are two things I hadn’t necessarily thought go together: drug development and X-ray beams. But it turns out the two are closely connected. I recently → Read More
How Can Crude Oil Aid Brain Imaging?
What happens when two Nobel Laureates get talking? They hatch a crazy plan to take teeny tiny diamonds from crude oil and – presto change-o – turn them into a → Read More
Building a better drug
Harvesting drugs from plants is precarious. Synthesizing them is inefficient. But we just might be able to grow them in the lab. → Read More
Resurrected Drug Fights Multiple Viruses
Virus are elusive foes. It seems like every year there’s a new one in the news – Ebola recently and now Zika – not to mention the virus that cause the flu or → Read More
Seeing Under The Skin
A few years ago I met with Adam de la Zerda, PhD, who was then a very new assistant professor in structural biology. Most young faculty members launch their → Read More
Better Drugs, Fewer Plants
I remember when I was young and learning about Native people making use of plant products for drugs and other things. The one that really stuck in my mind was a → Read More
Do the brain's intricate folds hold clues to autism?
When mechanical engineer Ellen Kuhl, PhD, came to Stanford in 2007, she was studying the physical forces that effect how the heart functions. But some of her → Read More
Key to collaboration: location, location, location. And coffee.
Since the 1980s, Stanford has founded 18 interdisciplinary institutes that bring faculty together from different schools and departments. The goal is for people → Read More
A team approach to international health
When it comes to issues in international public health, the challenge is more than just one of medicine. Solutions require people from multiple disciplines to → Read More
“Unprecendented” approach for attempting to create an HIV vaccine
Stanford's Peter S. Kim, PhD, was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering, making him one of only 20 people who are members of all three → Read More