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AA battery triggers drug delivery, Stanford U finds

An AA battery may be all you need to trigger the delivery of a targeted drug. A weak charge generated by the battery, Stanford University researchers have found, releases medication combined with

Nanotech team at Stanford develops artificial super skin

A team of researchers working in the lab of Stanford's Zhenan Bao has developed a new type of artificial skin which is both pressure sensitive and completely elastic. Single-walled carbon nanotubes

So, a needle-pulling-thread is outdated, doc goes sutureless

About a decade ago, Geoffrey Gurtner was chief of microsurgery at Bellevue Hospital in New York. A young patient had come in, about 10-12 months old, whose finger had been accidentally cut off by the

Researchers dream up a new cause for narcolepsy

Doctors administering the H1N1 vaccine recently got a strange wake-up call. Their patients were mysteriously falling asleep. It got so bad that it was suspected that a certain batch of the H1N1

Stanford investigators match old drugs with new medical uses

A small crew of researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine has come up with an ingenious new method to screen a large slate of approved drugs for compounds that have the potential to be

Stanford's SPARK hosts ideas so 'crazy' they just might work

Stanford University School of Medicine tells the tale of one researcher's desire to move her research into better heart disease drugs out of the lab and into the clinic--a quest that, she learned the

Sanofi selects Stanford for its latest university pact

Sanofi-Aventis has signed on with yet another top university to help foster its early-stage research work. After signing pacts with Harvard and the University of California San Francisco in recent