Foundational Research

Sleep experts share strategies to minimize jet lag’s effects on college athlete performance and health

Starting this fall, college athletes will take more coast-to-coast flights. To help these athletes and their co-travelers, a Stanford-led team of scientists and physicians summarizes its research on sleep disruptions, how they hamper performance and health, and ways to lessen the impacts.

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Illustration showing the chemical structure of the peptide oxytocin

New mass spectrometry method could advance multiple fields

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Two Stanford physicists win grants for ‘tabletop’ experiments with big implications

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Martha Cyert named a fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Stanford study reveals mechanisms behind how growing cells maintain their mojo by scaling up biosynthesis