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12/06/2025

Video game addictions can severely disrupt teens’ sleep, schoolwork and social lives, but there is help available at places like the Youth Recovery Clinic at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health.

12/05/2025

Our community mourns the loss of Nolan Williams, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. Williams was known for pioneering fast-acting treatments for severe mental health conditions, including rapid transcranial magnetic brain stimulation for depression and ibogaine therapy for PTSD.

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12/05/2025

Many an orange cat-affiliated human will vouch for their cat’s, let’s say, specialness. But now scientists have confirmed that there is, in fact, something unique about ginger-hued domestic felines. In a new study, Stanford Medicine researchers have discovered the long-posited but elusive genetic mutation that makes orange cats orange — and it appears to occur in no other mammal.

It took researchers a century to find the genetic glitch that causes orange coloration in cats.

12/04/2025

Stanford Medicine researchers found that tiny cancer-linked DNA circles “hitchhike” on chromosomes to spread during cell division. Blocking this attachment may offer a new avenue for future cancer therapies.

Blocking the circles, known as ecDNA, could lead to new classes of cancer therapies, Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues believe.

12/04/2025

Stanford Medicine researchers have identified a way to help aging joint cartilage regenerate by blocking a key aging-related protein.

Osteoarthritis due to aging or injury affects 20% of the U.S. population. A Stanford Medicine-led study found that blocking a ‘gerozyme’ reverses cartilage loss in mice and human tissue.

12/03/2025

Stanford Medicine scientists are identifying connections between earlier-life infections and later-life neurodegeneration. The findings point to the immune system’s long-term role in shaping brain health and future disease risk.

Researchers are uncovering the mysteries of why early-in-life acute infections can lead to neurodegenerative diseases in later years.

12/02/2025

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12/02/2025

Nine scientists extol their favorite cells, highlighting the vast variety and the startling behaviors of the basic units of life.

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12/01/2025

A study led by researchers at Stanford Medicine shows that differences in blood sugar responses to certain carbohydrates depend on details of an individual’s metabolic health status.

The differences in blood sugar response patterns among individuals were associated with specific metabolic conditions such as insulin resistance or beta cell dysfunction, both of which can lead to diabetes. The study findings suggest that this variability in blood sugar response could lead to personalized prevention and treatment strategies for prediabetes and diabetes.

Stanford Medicine-led research identifies blood glucose response patterns to different carbohydrates that correspond to insulin resistance, beta cell dysfunction and hypertension.

11/27/2025

This season, we’re grateful for every member of our Stanford Medicine community. Your curiosity, compassion and commitment power our mission every day — in our hospitals, clinics, classrooms, offices and labs. Thank you!

11/27/2025

Skin-to-skin cuddling, or 'kangaroo care,' with a parent offers lasting cognitive benefits for premature babies, according to a new Stanford Medicine study.

Babies born very early had stronger neurodevelopmental performance at 1 year if they received more skin-to-skin care as newborns, a Stanford Medicine study found.

11/26/2025

Stanford Medicine researchers recorded stem cells performing a previously unknown type of movement, dubbed cell tumbling, which may help them differentiate.