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Public Health
Foldscope, a Paper Microscope to Help Diagnose Disease
Profiles Manu Prakash, an assistant professor of bioengineering affiliated with the Stafnord Woods Institute, on the Foldscope, an inexpensive pocket-size microscope for diagnosing diseases in the developing world
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Maps From Google and Green Group Make Pavement-Level Pollution More Concrete
Quotes Woods Senior Fellow Rob Jackson, professor of environmental earth system science, on results from a pilot project by the Environmental Defense Fund and Google Earth Outreach that measures climate pollution in American cities from methane leaks
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Poor Sanitation in India May Afflict Well-Fed Children With Malnutrition
Quotes Senior Fellow Stephen Luby (Medicine) on sanitation's impact on childhood stunting. Luby is studying the issue in Bangladesh.
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Mobile Microscopes: Snapping the Future of Health Care
Quotes Manu Prakash, a Woods-affiliated assistant professor of bioengineering, on developing OScan, which performs a scan of the oral cavity using a smartphone camera and an attachment
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Bay Area Creators Strut Stuff at White House Maker Faire
Notes that Manu Prakash, Woods-affiliated assistant professor of bioengineering, and his $5 chemistry set were highlighted at the White House Maker Faire
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A Stanford Professor Is Revolutionizing Science With $1 Microscopes Made Almost Entirely of Paper
Interview with Woods-affiliated Assistant Professor Manu Prakash about his inexpensive Foldscope, which he hopes will allow everyone to have a microscope
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Maker Faire Makes White House Debut; Obama Tours Exhibits
Notes that Woods-affiliated Assistant Professor Manu Prakash was honored at the White House Maker Faire for creating a $5 chemistry set
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Yours to Cut Out and Keep
Describes paper microscope costing only 50 cents that was created by Manu Prakash, a Stanford Woods Institute-affiliated bioengineer
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Foldable Microscope Heading Around the World
Discusses Senior Fellow Manu Prakash's "Origami microscope" aimed at citizen scientists
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Science Tools Anyone Can Afford
Features Woods-affiliated Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Manu Prakash, who believes in distributing powerful yet inexpensive laboratory instruments as a way to spread science and medical opportunity around the globe
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If Kids Think Someone's Watching, They're More Likely to Wash Their Hands
Describes hand-washing study by Woods Senior Fellow Jenna Davis and Woods research associate Amy Pickering
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Panel's Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come
Quotes Woods Senior Fellows Chris Field and David Lobell on findings of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that climate change is already responsible for major changes on every continent. Stanford played a major role in creating the report; Stanford climate scientists were quoted in more than 50 major media print, website and broadcast stories, including NPR, the BBC, USA Today, Associated Press, The Guardian, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News, KRON-TV, KGO Radio, the Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, The Financial Times, National Geographic, Salon.com, The Weather Channel, Forbes, Reuters, Examiner.com, the Huffington Post, the Toronto Star and USEmbassy.gov (an international news site managed by the U.S. State Department).
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Ticks in the Bay Area Can Carry Lyme Disease – and That’s Not All
Refers to research for Woods researcher Dan Salkeld on two types of bacteria carried by ticks in the San francisco Bay Area
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Stanford Study Finds Lyme Disease Widespread in Bay Area
Quotes Dan Salkeld, disease ecologist at Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
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