RESEARCH DISCOVERIES AT STANFORD
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2013: Thomas Südhof, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Thomas Südhof, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with James Rothman of Yale University and Randy Schekman of UC Berkeley, "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells."
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2006: Andrew Fire, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Andrew Fire, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; shared with Craig Mello of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, for recognizing that certain RNA molecules can be used to turn off specific genes in animal cells.
Stanford Discoveries
– UPICuttlefish reveal link between self-control, intelligence
According to a new study, cuttlefish can pass the Stanford marshmallow test, delaying the gratification of an immediate reward for a better reward later.
– News CenterScientists find clues to how tiny fish ‘pauses’ its life
Stanford scientists have identified molecular drivers that put the “pause” in “diapause,” a life stage of the African killifish that suspends its development as an embryo.
– ScopeStanford nanoparticle COVID-19 vaccine shows early success in mice - Scope
Stanford University researchers have developed a nanoparticle vaccine that has shown in mouse studies to effectively build coronavirus immunities.
– News CenterStudy reveals immune driver of brain aging
Scientists have identified a key factor in mental aging and shown that it might be prevented or reversed by fixing a glitch in the immune system’s front-line soldiers.
– News CenterResearchers find method to regrow cartilage in the joints
In laboratory studies, Stanford School of Medicine researchers have found a way to regenerate the cartilage that eases movement between bones.
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– News CenterExercise restores youthful properties to muscle stem cells of old mice
The researchers also identified a molecular pathway involved in turning back the clock on the cells. Drugs that could manipulate the pathway might be an effective substitute for exercise, they suggest. Read more >>
Image credit: Anna Shvets
– News CenterCause of rare but deadly neurological disease identified
A drug may help children with Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease, a deadly neurological disorder, according to a study by researchers at Stanford, UCSF and Cambridge.
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– News CenterIn human cells and mice, a cure for the common cold, Stanford-UCSF study reports
Disabling a single, apparently noncritical protein in cells may foil replication of the viruses that cause half of all common colds, polio and other diseases, according to researchers at Stanford and UCSF.
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– News CenterResearchers discover the brain cells that make pain unpleasant
Pain sensation and the emotional experience of pain are not the same, and now, in mice, scientists at Stanford have found the neurons responsible for the latter.
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Updated October 20, 2020