Computers Crack Life’s Secrets
Our group studies the immune system, with the goal of figuring out new therapies for cancer.
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2015 – 2016 Stanford Longevity Design Challenge “
The Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge offers cash prizes and free entrepreneur mentorship in a competition open to all university students around the world who want to design products and services which optimize long life for us all.
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Anti-Aging Science: Despite Progress, Challenges Remain
Last month a team of doctors and scientists made the case to regulators at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to consider approving anti-aging drugs as a new pharmaceutical class. Such a designation would treat aging as disease rather than a natural process, potentially opening the door to government funding for anti-aging drug trials. To some, such a drug may seem impossible. Yet, the physiol...
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Cellular Lasers
Researchers at Harvard Medical School create a miniature laser that can emit light inside a single live cell.
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Can anything be done about Parkinson’s Disease?
The cause of Parkinson's Disease is the loss of neurons in a particular region of the mid-brain where nerve signals are translated into chemical signals.
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Precision Medicine Will Transform Cancer Treatment
Cancers are like snowflakes, each one unique.
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Dreams of a Pill to Enable Regeneration
Eight years ago, I assumed erroneously that the chute of my food processor was longer than my fingers.
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Artificial Intelligence as a Supplement to the Human Immune System
The human immune system is a protective force honed by millions of years of evolution to provide a broad, yet thorough opposition to entities that harm the human body.
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Securing the Artificial Pancreas
Millions of lives potentially depend on the resilience to cyber attacks of a new generation of “artificial pancreas” and other medical devices.
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Hacking Medical Robots
University of Washington researchers show that state of the art teleoperated surgical robots can be hacked with a downloadable Python library.
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