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It’s hard enough for a robot to work at sea level; try making one that swims a thousand meters down

Discarded, undegradable plastic trash is a global breeding ground for disease-carrying mosquitoes.

Municipal wastewater is proving to be one of the best ways to measure the true scale of diseases in our communities.

After years of careful development, engineers have created a boot-like exoskeleton that increases walking speed and reduces effort outside of the lab.

Stanford’s Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education Program recognizes faculty for extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education.

New cryptographic techniques allow patients to get personalized health care yet never divulge their medical secrets to anyone—even their doctors.

Mark Skylar-Scott receives NIH New Innovator Award and Michael Fischbach receives a NIH Transformative Research Award

With more resources being allocated to America's biotech sector, CISAC affiliate Megan Palmer and core faculty member Drew Endy describe the opportunities and challenges of develop

A new method for prompting cells to create specific proteins can more accurately focus on which cells make the proteins and when.

Access to clean drinking water should be a given and there are health consequences for children when it’s not

The technique helps us understand ice sheets right here on Earth -- and whether there could be life far, far beyond.

Picture a microscope. You are likely imagining a heavy metal base, a viewfinder tube to squint through, and knobs on the side to bring a tiny specimen into focus.

Discoveries involving a lab accident, venomous snails & a scientific instrument made from paper are some of the obscure, quirky or convoluted advances honored Wednesday with awards

The microbial community of over 100 bacterial species could help scientists learn more about the connections between the microbiome and human health.

The Stanford psychiatrist, neuroscientist and engineer is honored for developing a technology that lets researchers pinpoint the functions & malfunctions of specific brain circuits

To build a complex synthetic microbiome for studying the connections between gut bacteria and human health, Stanford researchers started from scratch with more than 100 bacterial s

Their approach, which mimics the physical forces exerted by immune cells as they crawl over host cells, could help scientists develop more effective cancer immunotherapies.

Six Stanford research teams have received funding to solve some of the most challenging problems in the field of AI.