Host Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering, genetics, and medicine at Stanford, is your guide t
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As a founding member and former chair of the Department of Bioengineering, possibly no one has enjoy
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On the eve of the 200th anniversary of the first publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, medical
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As a bioengineer, Russ Altman has long marveled at intersection of biology and engineering that is m
If you’ve ever flown coast to coast or around the world, perhaps you wonder, as “Future of Everythin
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