Radiology

A San Francisco museum brought an ancient mummy to the School of Medicine for a set of CT scans to learn more about the person beneath the bandages.

The Stanford team capitalized on the fact that rapidly dividing cancer cells require vast stores of cellular building blocks and that a key regulatory enzyme helps to control tumor cell metabolism.

The five-year grant is the third award from the National Cancer Institute to fund the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence in Translational Diagnostics at Stanford.

Gray matter volume and connections between several brain regions better forecast 8-year-olds’ acquisition of math skills than their performance on standard math tests.

Using high-field MRI technology and staining techniques, scientists have located inflamed, iron-containing scavenger cells in a memory-formation structure in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients who died.