Stanford University
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The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States. The university was founded in 1885 by former California governor and senator Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, as a memorial to their son Leland Stanford Jr., who died of typhoid in Europe a few weeks before his 16th birthday. The Stanfords used their farm lands in Palo Alto to establish the university hoping to create a large institution of higher education in California.
Stanford enrolls about 6,700 undergraduate and about 8,000 graduate students from the United States and around the world every year. The university is divided into a number of schools such as the Stanford Business School, Stanford Law School, Stanford School of Medicine, and Stanford School of Engineering. The university is in Silicon Valley, and its alumni have founded companies including Nike, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Nvidia, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, Silicon Graphics and Google.
The USWNR ranked Stanford’s undergraduate program fourth in the nation, and Stanford is consistently ranked high in other college and university rankings. Stanford is one of two private universities that compete in the Pacific-10 Conference. Stanford’s main athletic rival is Cal, and the two schools meet annually in the Big Game, a football game in which the winner is awarded the Stanford Axe.
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New Stanford list of HIV mutations vital to tracking AIDS epidemic
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 06, 2009 |
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In a collaborative study with the World Health Organization and seven other laboratories, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have compiled a list of 93 common mutations of the AIDS virus associated ...
Researchers mine millions of metaphors through computer-based techniques
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Metaphors cannot be taught, asserted the great philosopher Aristotle. "It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others." But a computer scientist and literary historian say he's wrong.
Protein complex shown to play pivotal role in stem cell development in 2 Stanford studies
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a protein complex important in controlling whether embryonic stem cells retain their ability to become any cell in the body — a quality called pluripotency ...
Technique may help stem cells generate solid organs
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Stem cells can thrive in segments of well-vascularized tissue temporarily removed from laboratory animals, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Once the cells have nestled into the tissue's nooks ...
Sex is in the brain, says new research
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 02, 2009 |
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More than 40 percent of women ages 18-59 experience sexual dysfunction, with lack of sexual interest — hypoactive sexual desire disorder, or HSDD — being the most commonly reported complaint, according to medical researchers. ...
From stem cells to new organs: Scientists cross threshold in regenerative medicine
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Feb 26, 2009 |
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By now, most people have read stories about how to "grow your own organs" using stem cells is just a breakthrough away. Despite the hype, this breakthrough has been elusive. A new report published in the March 2009 issue ...
British researcher says Facebook a brain drain
Feb 25, 2009 |
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This is your brain. This is your brain on Facebook.
Reversing ecology reveals ancient environments
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Feb 25, 2009 |
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From hair color to the ancestral line of parasitic bacteria, scientists can glean a lot from genes. But imagine if genes also revealed where you lived or who you spent time with. It turns out they do, if you know where and ...
Psychological headwind keeps women, minorities from sprinting ahead of their peers, study finds
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Let's say a white student and a black student both score 1020 on their SATs. They're performing right around the national average, so based on their scores it stands to reason they're both typical students ...
Immune system 'atlas' will speed detection of kidney transplant
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital have devised a new way to decode the immune signals that cause slow, chronic rejection of all transplanted kidneys. They've created ...
Scientists identify drug to treat opioid addiction
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that a commonly available non-addictive drug can prevent symptoms of withdrawal from opioids with little likelihood of serious side effects. The drug, ondansetron, ...
X-rays used to reveal secrets of famous fossil
Feb 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- About 150 million years ago, an evolutionarily hybrid creature, a dinosaur on its way to becoming a bird, died in what is now Germany, and become fossilized in limestone.
Engineers create intelligent molecules that seek-and-destroy diseased cells
Feb 13, 2009 |
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Current treatments for diseases like cancer typically destroy nasty malignant cells, while also hammering the healthy ones. Using new advances in synthetic biology, researchers are designing molecules intelligent enough to ...
Don't worry, kids, Stanford will teach Mom, Dad about Facebook
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Status Update: Mom and Dad want to join Facebook. And, like much else about Silicon Valley parenting, they're enlisting experts to learn how.
New evidence of hormone therapy causing breast cancer, professor says
Feb 04, 2009 |
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Postmenopausal women who take combined estrogen plus progestin menopausal hormone therapy for at least five years double their annual risk of breast cancer, according to new analyses from a major study that clearly establishes ...
