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A decade-long effort in genetic engineering is close to creating yeast that makes opioid-based medicines in stainless steel vats.

After a camping trip, orientation and ceremony in which they received stethoscopes and white coats, the new medical students are ready to hit the books.

Researchers have discovered that a compound they developed could potentially serve as a painkiller, with particular utility for East Asians with an alcohol-metabolizing enzyme mutation.

A multi-institutional effort to identify how genes are regulated among humans, flies and worms has identified significant similarities and differences among the organisms.

A tiny eye implant developed at Stanford could pair with a smartphone to improve the way doctors measure and lower a glaucoma patient’s eye pressure.

Optogenetically stimulating mice’s brains five days after stroke improved the animals’ motor control and brain biochemistry.

As children shift from counting on their fingers to remembering math facts, the hippocampus and its functional circuits support the brain’s construction of adultlike ways of using memory.

Scientists at the School of Medicine are at the forefront of research into how Alzheimer’s disease develops, with an eye on finding better ways to predict and treat the illness.

Set in the near future, 'The Perfect 46' documents the rise, and fall, of a fictional genome-matching service. A panel of experts weighed in after a recent screening at Stanford.

A bioengineering team has built molecular motors to further the study of cell function.