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January 19, 2017 Anyone who has had an encounter with cancer knows about waiting. You have to wait for test results, wait for appointments and wait to see if a particular treatment is working. A treatment that works for some … Continue reading →

January 12, 2017 When Mike Snyder, PhD, settled in for a long flight to Norway on a family vacation last year, he noticed changes in his heart rate and blood oxygen levels. Like a lot of people, Snyder, professor and … Continue reading →

January 10, 2017 A team of experts on how science works has issued a set of policies that could help accelerate science. Their article appears in the brand new scientific journal Nature Human Behavior. Anyone who has been waiting decades for President … Continue reading →

December 22, 2016 Most of us know that the genetic information that makes us who we are is encoded in the DNA in our cells. But that information has to be transcribed and translated into other molecules that actually make … Continue reading →

December 15, 2016 A team of scientists including Stanford’s John Ioannidis, MD, DSc, has proposed a set of principles to improve the transparency and reproducibility of computational methods used in all areas of research. The group’s summary of those principles, known … Continue reading →

December 12, 2016 When computer scientist Andrew A. Radin came to Stanford University School of Medicine and enrolled in a biomedical informatics course, he was just there to learn. For a class project, he made a software platform that used … Continue reading →

November 17, 2016 As discussed here earlier this week, the new issue of Stanford Medicine magazine explores the meaning and future of diagnostics. But what exactly is diagnostics? For a patient with an infection, it might just mean finding out which … Continue reading →