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Thursday, April 26, 2012
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Stanford neuroscientists, including Marion Buckwalter, have shown that a compound mimicking a key activity of a brain-based protein is capable of increasing the generation of new nerve cells in mice that have had strokes.
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SLAC's 3.2 billion-pixel digital camera is closer to reality. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope camera will capture the widest and deepest view of the night sky. It's received "Critical Decision 1" approval by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Weesam Kassim Alkhatib, a clinical instructor in surgery at the School of Medicine, died April 14 of a rare form of cancer. He was 34. Alkhatib was appointed a clinical instructor in 2010 after
doing a surgery fellowship at
Stanford.
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Admit Weekend begins today: Newly admitted students will be attending Admit Weekend beginning today, April 26. The three-day event is designed to give prospective freshmen a taste of what it would be like to live and study on the Farm.
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Cardinal quarterback ANDREW LUCK will be picked first in the NFL draft today, but he isn't the only Stanford student athlete to earn that honor . . .
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