Research

Over the CREST: Students conduct summer cancer research

Students conducted research on early cancer detection at the Canary Cancer Research Education Summer Training (CREST) program this summer, working under faculty mentors for 10 weeks. Canary CREST, which is funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), offers a unique research experience for a select group of undergraduate students each year. Students from both Stanford … [Read more…]

Research advances understanding of brain disorders

Stanford researchers made significant headway in isolating and understanding genes that lead to developmental disorders — helping to accelerate drug discovery and treatments for psychiatric disorders like autism, researchers involved with the study told The Daily.  The study was published last month in Nature and marked the first time researchers attempted to use CRISPR screening, … [Read more…]