Each year indoor air pollution, caused in part by cookstoves, is a key factor in the deaths of two million children from acute respiratory infections in developing countries. Since 2006, Stanford researchers have been working in Bangladesh to find practical, low-cost incentives that would encourage people to use cleaner, safer cookstoves.

Tagged: Environmental Research, pollution, Environment & Sustainability, International Issues, Engineering, Medicine

Globs of human fat removed during liposuction conceal versatile cells that are more quickly and easily coaxed to become induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, than are the skin cells most often used by researchers.

Tagged: Health Research, Human Health, Medicine

Stanford researchers are using genetic engineering and some of the world's smallest microscopes to better understand how specific circuits in the brain operate.

Tagged: brain imaging, NeuroVentures, Human Health, Engineering, Humanities & Sciences, Medicine

Researchers at Stanford’s School of Medicine have identified the first human bladder cancer stem cell and revealed how it works to escape the body’s natural defenses.

Tagged: Health Research, stem cells, Human Health, Medicine

Isaac Mutabazi was born and raised in a refugee camp in Uganda and did not see his native country of Rwanda until he was 16 years old, returning for the first time with millions of his countrymen following the 1994 genocide. Now, he is working in Rwanda to help rebuild the country’s health-care system.

Tagged: Human Health, International Issues, Medicine

The first-ever comparison of synchronization of brain signals in children and young adults helps explain why children are less adept at multitasking, emotion regulation and other behaviors that come with maturity, according to Stanford researchers.

Tagged: brain imaging, Human Health, Medicine

Current diagnostic tests for ovarian cancer are woefully ineffective for early detection of the disease, say researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Tagged: Health Research, Human Health, Humanities & Sciences, Medicine

An award-winning invention by Stanford doctoral students Richard Gaster and Drew Hall may change who diagnoses diseases ranging from flu to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

Tagged: bioengineering, Health Research, Human Health, Medicine

Mothers of premature infants shouldn’t rely solely on breast pumps to establish and maintain their breast milk supply, researchers at Stanford have found. Moms already have a simple, safe and free tool for assisting breast milk production: their own hands.

Tagged: premature birth, Human Health, Medicine

Many studies indicate that caloric restriction extends life spans in fruit flies, mice and, most recently, rhesus monkeys, apparently by slowing the aging process.  However, results from a recent Stanford School of Medicine study suggest that some skepticism might be in order regarding climbing aboard the caloric-restriction bandwagon,

Tagged: Human Health, Medicine