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Newborn foals may offer clues to autism
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- Written by Pat Bailey
Davis, California - Veterinary researchers at the University of California, Davis, are teaming up with their colleagues in human medicine to investigate a troubling disorder in newborn horses and are exploring possible connections to childhood autism. The common link, the researchers suggest, may be abnormal levels of naturally occurring neurosteroids.
NBA commissioner visits Stanford for lesson in virtual reality
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- Written by Bjorn Carey
Stanford, California - Courtside seats at an NBA game are some of the best tickets in all of sports – the game is literally played at your feet. They're also some of the hardest tickets to get, which is why NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and several other executives from the National Basketball Association visited Stanford for a crash course in how they might create similar experiences for fans in virtual reality.
Professor shares Academy Award for software to digitize destruction
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- Written by Tom Abate
Hollywood, California - A Stanford professor has won an Academy Award for helping put the crunch and devastation into blockbuster movies.
Stanford historian explores how gender analysis leads to innovation
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- Written by Barbara Wilcox
Stanford, California - Doing research wrong costs lives and money. Ten drugs were recently withdrawn from the U.S. market because of life-threatening health effects – eight of these posed greater threats for women.
Research shows dramatic differences in poverty throughout U.S.
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- Written by David Grusky and Clifton B. Parker
Stanford, California - The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality issued a new report card today showing that the 50 states are running strikingly different anti-poverty systems.
‘Underground scholars’ reverse school-to-prison pipeline
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- Written by Cathy Cockrell
Berkeley, California - After transferring to Berkeley in his early 30s, Danny Murillo did a research project on suspension practices in the public schools, looking at discipline meted out, in particular, to young black men.
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