DBDS is committed to training the next generation of biomedical data scientists, empowering them to become leaders across academia, industry, government and nonprofit sectors. Our goal is for students ...

Double eyelid surgery or "Asian blepharoplasty" creates an eyelid crease resulting in a larger and more symmetric, almond-shaped eye. The height from your upper lash line to the new eyelid crease is ...

What does "kicked the bucket"* mean? "Kicked the bucket" is a euphemistic phrase for death. What is a bucket list? A bucket list is a list of the experiences or achievements that a person hopes to ...

Billions of text messages and emails are sent around the globe each day. One seldom if ever pauses to think about the complex interplay of neurons, synapses and muscles at work as the brain transmits ...

Using new genetic tools to study statins in human cells and mice, Stanford Medicine researchers and collaborators have uncovered how the cholesterol-lowering drugs protect the cells that line blood ...

For 30 seconds on the afternoon of Jan. 6, 1968, in an operating room at Stanford Hospital, two human hearts lay very still in two separate basins near the unconscious body of a 54-year-old patient, ...

The human body undergoes dramatic changes during even short periods of weight gain and loss, according to a study led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. As people pack on ...

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered a way to regenerate, in mice and human tissue, the cushion of cartilage found in joints. Loss of this slippery and ...

It is now possible to scour complete human genomes for the presence of disease-associated genes without revealing any genetic information not directly associated with the inquiry, say Stanford ...

People who take the painkiller ibuprofen while running very long distances double their risk of acute kidney injury, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine ...

The average age of newborns' fathers in the United States has grown by 3 years over the past four decades, according to a new study from investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Coral reefs on the precipice of collapse may get a conservation boost from the gene-editing tool known as CRISPR, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and their ...