Editors' picks

Researchers explore the slippery world of biofilms

A team of Stanford scientists and engineers sets out to find where cholera hides between outbreaks — and what triggers its emergence.

Dear Friends,

A QUICK LOOK AT THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS FROM STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

"THE BRAIN IS WIDER THAN THE SKY,

FOR, PUT THEM SIDE BY SIDE,

THE ONE THE OTHER WILL INCLUDE

WITH EASE, AND YOU BESIDE."

Emily Dickinson

Stanford's David Relman, MD, is investigating
the deaths of
those who seem to have
died from infectious diseases --
but shouldn't have.