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The science of light
Researchers in the field of photonics are harnessing the power of light to improve our electronics, help us live more sustainably, and learn more about how our bodies work.
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Success with stem cell therapy in mice model of Alzheimer’s
Stanford Medicine researchers are hopeful that a proof-of-concept treatment in mice – blood stem cell transplants – may reduce signs of the neurodegenerative disease.
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McMurtry Arts Grants awarded
Read about four interdisciplinary projects that aim to catalyze discourse around the ways the arts can shift culture.
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Walter Falcon, global authority on food security, has died
Raised on a farm in east Iowa and educated in a one-room schoolhouse, the Stanford economics professor was an internationally sought-after agricultural adviser.
2 weeks ago