Wheat and other sources of gluten can spell trouble for people with the disease, but new findings could aid the development of first-ever drugs for the autoimmune disorder.
It is a mystery how the earliest organisms on earth evolved the means to thrive, grow and reproduce under the sparse conditions of the young planet. Primordial earth had little oxygen and in the deep seas, no available light. One...
Register to watch in person in the Kavli Auditorium, or watch the lecture live on our YouTube page. Plants supply us with food, clothing, medicines, fuels, and other necessities of life. For their growth, plants need essential minerals from the...
SLAC Deputy Director for Science and Technology Alberto Salleo's lab at Stanford is creating artificial synapses to replicate the brain’s efficiency and learning capacity in computing systems.
Presented by Franklin Fuller. Over billions of years, plants and cyanobacteria changed the Earth’s atmosphere by inhaling carbon dioxide, storing the carbon in solid biomass and exhaling oxygen.
Professor at SLAC and Stanford Director of CryoEM and Bioimaging Division at SLAC
Areas of research: Science of life; cryo-EM; bioimaging; RNA structure; cryo-ET of neuronal cells; atomic-resolution cryo-EM; pandemic-related structures
Taking pictures of tiny, flash-frozen things with electrons is revolutionizing biology and technology. SLAC and Stanford host one of the world’s leading facilities for doing cryo-EM research, improving the technology and making it available to researchers across the country.
SLAC is uniquely equipped to study viruses like SARS-CoV-2; in fact, we’ve been doing it for decades. This news collection gathers the latest information on COVID-19 research at SLAC.
