Engineers in Prof. James Harris' laboratory have developed a compact optics and microfluidics device to continuously monitor the hemostatic state of patients undergoing heart surgery, dialysis or other procedures.
A team of Stanford researchers has identified mutations in the LNK gene in a subset of patients with chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). LNK (also known as SH2B3) is an adaptor protein that inhibits JAK-STAT signaling.