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The ability to study brain disorders that arise before birth has taken a leap forward as Stanford Medicine researchers find a new way to grow human brain tissue outside of the human brain.

Emmanuel Mignot found that narcolepsy stems from a deficiency of orexin in the brain, opening the door to new sleep therapies.

Researchers can now induce dreams during anesthesia. They think it could help crack the mystery of how psychedelics work to alleviate trauma.

 Gynecologists can offer tailored strategies to manage menopause symptoms in breast cancer survivors who can’t use hormone replacement therapy.

Researchers are venturing into a new area of collaboration that relies on agentic AI, co-scientists that can act independently and help humans ideate, hypothesize and speed up scientific exploration.