Three seniors and a medical student are among the 34 Americans awarded scholarships to pursue graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in England.
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Stanford researchers have identified 20 genes that can predict an individual’s likelihood of developing a severe form of dengue fever with about 80 percent accuracy.
The Churchill Scholarship promotes scientific exchange between the United States and the United Kingdom, with the goal of advancing science and technology on both sides of the Atlantic.
The relatively rapid evolution of gay rights in Germany intrigued Stanford doctoral candidate Samuel Clowes Huneke. His research into what led to Germany becoming a standard bearer for gay rights today surprised him.
Working with retired NBA star Yao Ming was just one of the highlights of senior Yvonne Lee’s summer internship at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, an opportunity supported by the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Last month, a Chinese researcher announced the birth of the world’s first gene-edited babies, whose DNA had been edited to reduce the risk of HIV infection.
