Recent News
While teaching her first class at Stanford last spring, Biology Assistant Professor Erin Mordecai wasn’t afraid to set the bar high. She challenged her students to tackle the emergence of Zika as the epidemic continued to grab headlines. She also made it known that, even though most of them were...
How whole groups of neurons work together to form Pavlovian classical conditioning of two stimuli was recently investigated by Professor Mark Schnitzer's lab. The researchers worked with mice and focused on the amygdala, a part of the brain known to be involved in learning that is extremely similar...
Researchers long believed that the cerebellum did little more than process our senses and control our muscles.
Grasses are better able to withstand drought or high temperatures than many other plants in large part due to changes in their pores, called stomata. In a study led by Biology Professor Dominique Bergmann, scientists have discovered how grasses produce these altered pores, which could someday lead...
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub has announced 19 Stanford faculty among its first cohort of 47 investigators from Bay Area university collaborators. The CZ Biohub Investigator Program funds world-renowned scientists, engineers and technologists from Stanford, UC Berkeley and UCSF. The investigators each...
