The majestic cell
How the smallest units of life determine our health
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Explore issues
The majestic cell
How the smallest units of life determine our health
Psychiatry’s new frontiers
Hope amid crisis
AI explodes
Taking the pulse of artificial intelligence in medicine
Health on a planet in crisis
Health Compass Podcast
Expanding on Stanford Medicine stories
From the archive
Guiding our way to better health
In the Health Compass podcast, host Maya Adam navigates us through big questions in health care and medicine
Food therapy
Clinical trial finds that metabolic effects of a high-fat, low-carb diet may improve psychiatric conditions
Strength in numbers
New therapy unleashes billions of immune cells on patient’s melanoma
DNA research disparities
Genetic screening of newborns fails nonwhite families more often
The company they keep
Neighboring cells influence whether tumors grow or perish
COVID’s unwitting enablers?
New research flags unexpected cells in lungs as a suspected source of severe COVID
Celebrating new hearts
Stanford Medicine marks 50 years of heart transplants for its youngest patients
Ask AI
Using artificial intelligence to respond to patient questions is shown to reduce clinician burnout
Dope truths
Education program for adolescents aimed at drug use prevention and safety
AI steps into the looking glass with synthetic data
Medical data scientists are using generative AI to create new data from scratch
Anesthesia dreaming
Pleasant dreams during surgery help some people overcome deep trauma
Reconsidered: breast cancer origins and risk factors
Gene sequences from parents have more impact than recognized in determining breast cancer’s course
What the cell!
Engineering cells for a new purpose
Why is a common gene variant bad for your brain?
The answer offers clues for a new kind of Alzheimer’s drug
The stuff of life
Discovering the secrets of cells