The first settlers of Hawaii were the most capable sailors of their time, crossing 7,000 kilometers of open ocean to reach ...

The Stanford Cancer Institute has released its 2026 Annual Report, celebrating the collective efforts of Stanford faculty, ...

Maduke, whose current research focuses on chloride channels, has advanced from associate chair to department chair.

A single treatment of the psychedelic drug ibogaine appeared to provide long-lasting recovery from PTSD, anxiety and depression in a small study of special ops veterans with traumatic brain injury.

Pathology professor Patrick Hsu’s $250,000 prize will accelerate the development of new gene-editing tools and artificial intelligence models that can identify disease-causing mutations.

Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, has devoted the better part of two decades of his career to the development and promulgation of optogenetics, which has immeasurably improved scientists’ ability to probe the ...

Four Stanford Medicine researchers have been awarded Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health contracts. ARPA-H is an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that advances ...

Stanford Health Care has once again achieved national recognition for its excellent patient care — placing it among the top academic medical centers in the country — and for its commitment to ...

For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved ...

The latest company to spin out of a Stanford Medicine lab is a biotech undertaking with 37,000 employees — and none of them are human. There’s no lab space, no lunch breaks and no payroll. It’s an ...

Contrary to the old adage, there is something new under the sun after all — at least here in the United States. For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new ...

The Stanford EMT Training Program offers certification as an Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), along with recertification, continuing education, and teaching ...