Microbiology

Cryogenic electron microscopy is driving a burst of discoveries about how molecules work in health and disease

Molecular insights boom

A dozen Stanford Medicine researchers explain what piques their interest when it comes to molecules

Blocking age-related protein activity can revitalize older muscles

Excerpts from 'The Puzzle Solver'

A sampler of COVID-19 research

Stanford launched its own test early in the pandemic — but the challenges kept on coming

How the new coronavirus penetrates, exploits and kills cells, and how an army of scientists aims to destroy it

An engineer sways tissue samples to behave in the lab like they would inside us

Better cancer diagnostics and treatments are in the works