Another benefit, says Mark Kay, a researcher at the Stanford University School of Medicine, could come for gene therapy.

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"Despite our idiosyncrasies in listening, the brain experiences music in a very consistent fashion across subjects, " said Daniel Abrams, lead author and postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine.

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Dr. Leah Millheiser, director of the Female Sexual Medicine Program at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has been conducting studies looking at the MRI images of women with extremely low libido.

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"We found no evidence to suggest that the drug saves lives for any of the patient scenarios or conditions that we evaluated, " said Veronica Yank, a fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine's Prevention Research Center and a co-author of both reports.

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Scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that the millions of fat cells removed during liposuction can be easily and quickly turned into induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, more easily than the skin cells that researchers used when the first iPS cells were created in 2007.

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At Stanford University's school of medicine, professors electronically poll their students in class in real time, enabling them to tailor their lectures more precisely.

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