Research

From empowering patients to rethinking how doctors and AI work together, Stanford’s weeklong symposium surfaced the ideas most likely to shape medicine’s next chapter.

CORES and SPORR together extend a long Stanford lineage of reliable science.

Stanford Medicine’s new proton therapy facility is ready for patients. On June 4 a child with a rare brain tumor became the first to receive treatment.

A Stanford team used geospatial data and detection algorithms to achieve a tenfold increase in rescues from modern slavery in the Brazilian Amazon. Now they’re planning to expand their approach.

A variety of grants and mentorship opportunities encourage undergrad researchers to pursue work on original projects, from AI efficiency to disease treatment.

Research shows that obexelimab halves relapse risk in patients with IgG4-related disease, a chronic immune condition often misdiagnosed as cancer.

More than half a million Americans declare bankruptcy each year. Fabian Nagel analyzed random audits to see how many are telling the truth.

The discovery that hormonal triggers cause “ruptoblast” cells in flatworms to detonate and destroy surrounding cells within minutes could inspire new ideas in medical science.

In an analysis led by Stanford Law’s Julian Nyarko, professors preferred AI-generated answers over those produced by their peers 75% of the time.

Electricity rates have risen 10% in the U.S. since last year. Stanford experts discuss the causes and propose solutions to ease costs for ratepayers.