In a Q&A, law Professor Michelle Mello, co-author of the "Making Medicines Affordable" report of the National Academies, explains some of the key challenges facing Americans in need of prescription drugs.
With a new genetic tool to study how flies detect scents, Stanford researchers take a step toward developing techniques to repair the faulty wiring behind human brain disorders.
A Stanford-led team has launched the first index to track the state of artificial intelligence and measure technological progress in the same way the GDP and the S&P 500 index take the pulse of the U.S. economy and stock market.
A mechanical engineer with expertise in gas and plasma, as an administrator Kruger increased Stanford’s research funding and helped lead the university toward more interdisciplinary research efforts.
Global warming and land use practices, such as farming, could change the environment for microbes living in the soil and alter the amount of greenhouse gases they release into the atmosphere.