Category: Stanford University

Stanford-bound student faces something unexpected during gap year: mortality

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events At the U.S. Education Department, student Katherine Du holds up an anthology of teen writing in which her work is published Katherine Du is a 17-year-old who is on a gap year before starting Stanford University this fall. She grew up in London and Connecticut, and attended the private Greenwich Academy.

Scientists create scorecard index for heart-damaging chemo drugs

Joseph Wu and his colleagues used lab-grown heart cells to assess the effect of chemotherapy drugs on heart muscle. Steve Fisch Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine used heart muscle cells made from stem cells to rank commonly used chemotherapy drugs based on their likelihood of causing lasting heart damage in patients.

Gene therapya s latest benefit: New skin

… Medicine, announced last week. The center, a new joint initiative of Stanford Healthcare, Stanford Children’s Health and the Stanford School of Medicine, is designed to accelerate cellular therapies at the university’s state-of-the-art manufacturing …

AI System Recognizes Skin Cancer

… as successfully as human experts, according to the latest research attempting to apply artificial intelligence to health. The US-based researchers say the new system, which is based on image recognition, could be developed for smartphones, …

New MIP system for therapeutic gene delivery can enhance transgene expression using AAV vector

Advanced engineering of a mini-intronic plasmid system designed to carry a therapeutic gene can significantly enhance the expression of the transgene delivered using an adeno-associated viral vector. The ability to increase transgene expression by up to 40 to 100-fold, which would reduce the cost of manufacturing and perhaps also lessen the immune response of AAV/MIP-based gene therapy, is reported in Human Gene Therapy, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.

Could your smartphone catch skin cancer?

Scientists at Stanford University in the US trained the deep-learning algorithm, developed by Google and known as a neural net, to visually diagnose potential cancers. A study, published in the journal Nature, showed that when tested on nearly 130,000 images, it detected malignant cancers with 91 per cent accuracy.

Islets from rat-grown mouse pancreases can help reverse disease in diabetic mice

Mouse pancreases grown in rats generate functional, insulin-producing cells that can reverse diabetes when transplanted into mice with the disease, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo. The recipient animals required only days of immunosuppressive therapy to prevent rejection of the genetically matched rather than lifelong treatment.

Islets from rat-grown mouse pancreases can help reverse disease in diabetic mice

Mouse pancreases grown in rats generate functional, insulin-producing cells that can reverse diabetes when transplanted into mice with the disease, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo. The recipient animals required only days of immunosuppressive therapy to prevent rejection of the genetically matched rather than lifelong treatment.

Bodywide immune response important for fighting cancer, Stanford researchers say

Fighting off cancer requires the concerted efforts of immune molecules throughout the body, rather than just in the tumor itself, according to a new study of laboratory mice by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The finding helps settle an ongoing dispute among clinicians as to whether systemic, or whole-body responses, are as important as a robust response by immune cells in the tumor itself.

Bodywide immune response important for fighting cancer, Stanford researchers say

Fighting off cancer requires the concerted efforts of immune molecules throughout the body, rather than just in the tumor itself, according to a new study of laboratory mice by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The finding helps settle an ongoing dispute among clinicians as to whether systemic, or whole-body responses, are as important as a robust response by immune cells in the tumor itself.

How Your Morning Coffee Might Slow Down Aging

To the age-old question – ” Is coffee bad for you ?” – researchers are in more agreement than ever that the answer is a resounding “no.” A new study published in the journal Nature Medicine found that older people with low levels of inflammation – which drives many, if not most, major diseases – had something surprising in common: they were all caffeine drinkers.

20-cent Paperfuge could help diagnose diseases

… and can’t be used in the field. “A couple of years ago, I experienced a moment in Uganda while talking to primary health workers, which made me realize centrifuges are a critical part of a diagnostics lab infrastructure, and they were missing from …