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Tiny devices could help scientists study coral bleaching, parasites, molecular biology and more, but few scientists know how to use them. A new course aimed to change that by pairing students with labs looking for help.

A tiny set of nerve cells in a male mouse’s brain activates aggression. But a new Stanford study shows that the male’s susceptibility to this activation depends on whether it has been housed with other mice or in isolation.

Stanford investigators fused two stem-cell-derived neural spheroids, each containing a different type of human neuron, then watched as one set of neurons migrated and hooked up with the other set.

Stanford undergraduates have won a national prize for their work developing a new antibiotic to combat the growing threat of multidrug-resistant bacteria.

Tiny nanostraws that sample the contents of a cell without causing damage may improve our ability to understand cellular processes and lead to safer medical treatments.

The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub has announced 19 Stanford faculty among its first cohort of 47 investigators from Bay Area university collaborators. These investigators will work toward curing, preventing and managing every disease.

The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub will include two major research projects intended to help cure and prevent disease. One, focusing on infectious disease, will be led by biochemist Peter S. Kim.

Nick Cox is a chemist and postdoctoral scholar in the Stanford ChEM-H Medicinal Chemistry Knowledge Center. For the past two years, he has helped the Jennifer Cochran lab develop a novel molecular warhead to deliver drugs to cancer cells without harming healthy cells. Graduate student Anna Koster...

Protein are responsible for a variety of essential jobs inside cells—they carry messages, defend against pathogens, and act as microscopic chemists. Furthermore, their malfunction can cause diseases ranging from Alzheimer’s to diabetes. To perform their roles and maintain healthy cells, proteins...