A study of the microbiome of groups in Africa and South America indicates that diverse gut microbes joined us as we migrated out of Africa — a diversity that is lost among industrialized peoples.
Collaborators and colleagues of Karl Deisseroth’s come out to raise a glass of champagne to the Nobel Prize laureate Monday on the Stanford University campus.
Light-activated proteins can be activated or inhibited with pulses of laser light. It was a challenge to make it all work — but it did, and it led to a Nobel Prize.
Stanford Medicine researchers can now induce dreams during anesthesia. They think it could help crack the mystery of how psychedelics work to alleviate trauma.
Stanford Medicine gynecologists can offer tailored strategies to manage menopause symptoms in breast cancer survivors who can’t use hormone replacement therapy.
The FDA finally gave the green light to bemotrizinol. We consulted three Stanford Medicine experts about why this is considered a massive leap forward for skin health in the U.S.
Doing More with Less: A Simpler Way to Predict Genetic Risk
Biomedical data science researchers developed a machine-learning method that can use far fewer variants to make disease or trait predictions with nearly the same accuracy as other models.
Microplastics and the law explained: What California's new rule means for plastic policy
California provides a case study for other states and governmental bodies looking for ways to stem the tide of microplastic pollution. Stanford experts in medicine and policy explain what can be learned from the state's decade-long regulatory...
Stanford biomedical data scientists built a statistical tool to decode how cells organize inside tumors
PANORAMIC, a new open-source tool, discovered immune signals in colon cancer that were missed by existing methods. It helps researchers distinguish between random cell clusters and meaningful biological patterns of cell arrangements in diseased...
September 08, 2026
A bleeding-edge breakthrough for blood cancer patients
Following the FDA approval of Orca-T, the field of bone marrow and stem cell transplantation has reached a long-sought watershed moment.
Pathology professor Patrick Hsu’s $250,000 prize will accelerate the development of new gene-editing tools and artificial intelligence models that can identify disease-causing mutations.
Packard Children’s hospital received the highest level trauma center verification, two professors were accepted into a radiology academy, an emergency medicine professor was named to a commission on public trust in science, and a pediatrics professor received a grant to study digital media use among teens.
Two Stanford Medicine teams have been awarded Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health contracts for their work in using artificial intelligence for better patient outcomes.
Stanford Medicine is harnessing artificial intelligence to expedite research, advance treatments, improve patient care and achieve better health equity. Follow the latest developments in the integration of AI technologies into biomedicine.
Researchers and physicians at Stanford Medicine are expanding our understanding of how cancer originates and spreads, discovering more effective treatments, and helping prevent recurrence.
The latest news from Stanford Medicine's research and clinical communities as they uncover the secrets of conditions such as epilepsy, autism, stroke, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease and pioneer treatments for these conditions.
Researchers and physicians at Stanford Medicine are learning the origins of mental illness and finding more effective ways to treat conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD and bipolar disorder.
Stanford Medicine researchers are uncovering the secrets of heart conditions such as tachycardia, atrial fibrillation and heart failure while surgeons are advancing techniques for bypass operations, transplantation and fixing congenital heart deformities.
Lehman helped discover DNA polymerase, co-discovered DNA ligase and fostered the collaborative culture that shaped Stanford Medicine’s Department of Biochemistry.
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