Theme stories

Caution surrounds the use of animals to solve donor shortages

Tiny lab-grown blobs could aid understanding of psychiatric and neurological disease

CRISPR is a revolutionary gene-editing tool, but it’s not without risk

It’s not just for gene therapy

The enormity of the first U.S. adult heart transplant

Stanford’s heart transplant breakthrough precipitated years of protocol advances

A conversation with author Mary Roach

Frontiers in science, technology and medicine

The heart of pediatrics

New Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford includes family and nature in care