“I am currently a high school junior and would like to pursue neuroscience and/or robotics in college, perhaps with some sort of link to psychology or artificial intelligence. There is no course at my high school which would lead to such studies, so I’m designing an independent study for next year...
'When I went to medical school, there wasn't a single woman neurosurgeon in Pakistan, so a lot of people shared unsolicited advice for me to go into Obstetrics & Gynecology or Pediatrics, which were thought to be more favorable fields for women in medicine." Rabia Qaiser, MD
Stanford researchers have found that blood from newborn humans can rejuvenate learning and memory in aged mice, a discovery that could lead to new treatments for age-associated declines in mental ability.
Harnessing a stem-cell-activating protein may help people recover faster from surgery or other trauma, according to Thomas Rando, MD, PhD, professor of neurology and neurological sciences and his Stanford colleagues.