Stanford School of Engineering

Illustration of a silhouetted person standing alone among scattered coronavirus particles on a blue background.

Study refines our understanding of long COVID

News

An analysis of 14.4 billion medical insurance claims has uncovered limitations in earlier studies, offering a more reliable way to measure the long-term health effects of COVID-19.
Nina Zhao in safety glasses and a blue lab coat smiles while holding a box of samples in a lab aisle lined with shelves of supplies.

‘We live in a chemical world’

Profile

Nina Zhao is working to map the drugs, pesticides, and pollutants we encounter in daily life – often unknowingly – and to understand how they shape human and ecosystem health.
Two immune cells under fluorescence: chromatin sits compact in an intact cell's nucleus (left), then spreads as the membrane ruptures (right).

What makes an immune cell pop

Research

A Stanford study reveals how changes in DNA packaging can help immune cells burst, shedding light on a defense process implicated in autoimmune diseases.