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How cellphones might help researchers battle mosquito-spread disease
In many regions, mosquitos are basically flying disease distributors. Bed nets and pharmaceuticals save lives, but to support additional advances — from environmental controls such as removing breeding...
View ArticleCould a vibrating glove become part of stroke therapy?
Stroke is difficult subject. As much progress as there's been in the last few years in detecting and treating strokes as they're happening, and as much progress as there's been in preventing them from...
View ArticleFollowing injury, a new approach could help rebuild muscle
After a traumatic injury to arms and legs, surgeons will first repair bone and nerves, because without them, you can't move your limbs. They worry about the muscle later: Muscle can regenerate to some...
View ArticleA spray-on gel may help prevent internal scar tissue
After surgery, patients nearly always form adhesions -- bands of scar tissue that stretch between internal organs and surrounding tissues. Adhesions are often harmless, but they can prove fatal if...
View ArticleSticky sensors developed to detect skin’s signals
Our skin is the largest organ in our body -- it serves an essential role in protecting the body and transmitting sensations to the brain. But tapping in to the biological signals shared through the...
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In the Spotlight: Using engineering to improve patients’ lives
Meet Ross Venook, PhD, assistant director of engineering at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign and a lecturer in bioengineering. An electrical engineer by training, his work has focused on...
View ArticleMacular degeneration steals sight. A chip implant may get it back.
In a small clinical trial described in Ophthalmology, a tiny prosthetic retinal device invented by Stanford researcher Daniel Palanker, PhD, has proved its ability to restore eyesight to some people...
View ArticleMotor-powered ankle exoskeleton could make running easier, faster
Running is a low-cost form of exercise with all kinds of benefits for health and well-being, yet some people don't enjoy it. What if you could attach a device to your leg that makes running easier --...
View ArticleScientists redesign full-face snorkel mask to combat PPE shortage
In mid-March, Manu Prakash, PhD, a bioengineer at Stanford, sat at home, self-quarantined as a precaution after a trip to the south of France. As he dutifully carried out his 14-day self-isolation, he...
View ArticleDevice could help patients test blood ammonia levels at home
Ammonia is usually a harmless byproduct of digestion that is passed out of the body through urine. But some people with liver disease and certain genetic conditions do not effectively metabolize...
View ArticleHow thoughts could one day control electronic prostheses, wirelessly
Stanford researchers have been working for years to advance a technology that could one day help people with paralysis regain use of their limbs, and enable amputees to use their thoughts to control...
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Stanford physician seeks to improve sepsis testing
Bacteremia happens when bacteria enter a patient's bloodstream. It can cause an infection that progresses quickly, and can develop into sepsis, a life-threatening condition that can impair blood flow,...
View ArticleAI researchers explore solutions for real-life health challenges
When most of us stumble and fall, it's likely we'll end up with bruises, a chipped tooth or maybe scraped-up knees and elbows. But as we age, various factors can conspire to increase the chances we'll...
View ArticleHow does 2020 Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR technology work?
This year's winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry harnessed the humble bacteria's long-evolved defense system to create a powerful gene-editing tool that some think is revolutionizing medicine....
View ArticleSaving the world with synthetic biology
Drew Endy, PhD, a Stanford bioengineer, is the kind of brilliant that makes your head spin. His ideas come at a mile a minute, each one a potential mini revolution of standard biology, and his...
View ArticleEngineering a new heart, layer by layer
Each year in the United States, about 40,000 babies are born with a congenital heart defect -- or an abnormality in the heart that is present at birth -- the most common type of birth defect in the...
View ArticleUnconventional Paths: Sneaky submarines and super surgeries
Unconventional Paths: Stories of Stanford Medicine faculty, researchers and physicians whose journeys into medicine followed nontraditional routes As a mechanical engineering graduate student,...
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