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• Creative Thinking Nets Stanford Researchers Two NIH Pioneer Awards, Three New Innovator Awards

  - 2008-09-22

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Two scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine who've sussed out ways to see what's usually hidden are winners of this year's NIH Director's Pioneer Awards--the National Institutes of Health's most prestigious award for creative thinkers. Secrets held within a living being's brain and a...

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• Two Stanford Faculty Will Benefit from Keck Awards

  - 2008-08-04

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Stanford University has received two million-dollar grants from the W.M. Keck Foundation for projects aimed at using light to control a variety of cells and exploring how specific enzymes help embryonic stem cells turn into adult cells. The beneficiaries of the grants are Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD,...

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• Prevailing Theory of Aging Challenged in Stanford Worm Study

  - 2008-07-24

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Age may not be rust after all. Specific genetic instructions drive aging in worms, report researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Their discovery contradicts the prevailing theory that aging is a buildup of tissue damage akin to rust, and implies science might eventually halt or...

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• Scavenger Cells May Have Role Blocking Obesity, Stanford Study Shows

  - 2007-05-21

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Macrophages -- the scavenger cells of the body's immune system -- are known as troublemakers for the role they play in obesity, but Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have found that the cells can also be saviors when it comes to metabolism. The researchers highlight...

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• Molecule Linked to Autoimmune Disease Relapses Identified at Stanford

  - 2006-12-03

  STANFORD, Calif. -- The ebb and flow of such autoimmune diseases as multiple sclerosis, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis has long been a perplexing mystery. But new findings from the Stanford University School of Medicine bring scientists closer to solving the puzzle, identifying a molecule that appears to play a central...

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• Stanford Study Reveals Protein's Jekyll-and-Hyde Role in Cancer Growth

  - 2005-10-20

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Tumor-suppressor proteins work to inhibit tumor growth in our bodies and when they win, they spare us a battle with cancer. But one such protein, menin, appears to have a split personality. Though menin is well-known for its ability to suppress endocrine tumors, researchers at Stanford University...

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• Editor's note

  - 2005-07-09

  This week, we are pleased to welcome Elizabeth Marincola as the new president of Science Service and publisher of Science News. She succeeds Donald R. Harless, who retired after 34 years at Science Service, including 7 years as president and publisher of Science News. Marincola comes to us from...

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• Applied Biosystems expanded its collaboration with Stanford University and University of Miami to continue the study of genetic biomarkers associated with treatment response and survival in diffuse large B cell lymphoma, the most common form of non-Hodgki

  - 2005-05-15

  Applied Biosystems expanded its collaboration with Stanford University and University of Miami to continue the study of genetic biomarkers associated with treatment response and survival in diffuse large B cell lymphoma, the most common form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The multisite study will employ the company's TaqMan Low Density Array, a...

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• 'Genius' Award Goes to Stanford Researcher Who Investigates How Nasty Bugs Evade Detection

  - 2004-09-28

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Julie Theriot, PhD, was stunned by the early morning telephone call Sept. 21, informing her that she had just joined the club that includes some of the world's most creative minds. Theriot, an assistant professor of biochemistry and of microbiology and immunology at the Stanford University School...

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• ACLARA Signs Stanford University.

  - 2003-07-01

  ACLARA BioSciences (1288 Pear Ave., Mountain View, CA 94043; Tel: 650/210-1200, Fax: 650/210-1210) has entered into a service and supply agreement with Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, CA 94305; Tel: 650/723-2300) to provide broad access to ACLARA's eTag Assay System for high-throughput, multiplex proteomics studies in...

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