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Silicon Chips on the Brain: Researchers Announce a New Generation of Brain-Computer Interface

December 8, 2025
Andreas Tolias, a Professor in the Stanford Department of Ophthalmology at the Byers Eye Institute, as well as a Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and Clark Center resident faculty member, is a senior author on the publication in Nature Electronics. Fabricated as a single chip, the new implant is orders of magnitude faster and smaller than today’s state-of-the-art brain-computer interfaces, offering an opportunity for more efficacious treatment of a number of neurological conditions.
Soft bioelectronic fiber can track hundreds of biological events simultaneously

September 17, 2025 - Stanford Report News
Developed by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Zhenan Bao, James Dunn, Julia Kaltschmidt, and Xiaoke Chen, with co-authors Stanford Bio-X Travel Award recipients Alex Abramson, Ryan Hamnett, Samuel Root, Weilai Yu, Yuanwen Jiang, Jinxing Li, and Weichen Wang, and co-lead authors Stanford Bio-X Travel Award recipient Muhammad Khatib, Stanford Bio-X PhD Fellow Eric Zhao, and Shiyuan Wei, NeuroString is a hair-thin multichannel biosensor and stimulator with promising potential applications in drug delivery, nerve stimulation, smart fabrics, and more. The work was initially launched by a 2018 Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant titled: Closed-loop neurochemical sensing and modulation system for treating psychiatric disorders.
Eye prosthesis is the first to restore sight lost to macular degeneration

October 20, 2025 - Stanford Medicine News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Daniel Palanker led a clinical trial of a wireless retinal prosthesis, in which people with advanced macular degeneration regained enough vision to read books and subway signs. This work was initially launched by a 2008 Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grant titled: Optoelectronic Retinal Prosthesis.
‘Immune system reset’ cures Type 1 diabetes in mice

November 17, 2025 - Stanford Report News
In a study from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Seung Kim, Judith Shizuru, and Everett Meyer, with lead author Stanford Bio-X Fellow Preksha Bhagchandani, a gentle dual-transplant approach cured or prevented Type 1 diabetes in mice. The discovery could also open a new path for treating autoimmune diseases and improving organ transplants.
Medications change our gut microbiome in predictable ways

November 17, 2025 - Stanford Report News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members KC Huang and Justin Sonnenburg, with first author Stanford Bio-X Fellow Handuo Shi and co-author Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program participant Daniel Newton, have found that common medications can unsettle the gut microbiome. Predicting these changes may help scientists design treatments that reduce side effects.
Zhuokun Ding, Stelios Papadopoulos, and Paul Fahey of the Andreas Tolias lab in Stanford Ophthalmology have won an Aspirational Neuroscience Annual Award!

November 17, 2025
Zhuokun Ding, Stelios Papadopoulos, and Paul Fahey of Dr. Andreas Tolias’s lab, in the Andreas Tolias lab from the Department of Opthalmology, have won an Aspirational Neuroscience Award at this year’s Society for Neuroscience Conference!
Advance in creating organoids could aid research, lead to treatment

June 5, 2025 - Stanford Medicine News
Stanford Bio-X and Clark Center building resident Oscar Abilez, with co-lead author Dr. Huaxiao Yang, co-author previous Stanford Bio-X Fellow Kitchener Wilson, and Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Ioannis Karakikes, Gary Peltz, Christopher Zarins, and Joseph Wu, developed a way to create the first heart and liver organoids that generate their own blood vessels, possibly paving the way for organoid-based regenerative therapies.
‘Re-Thinking Food’ symposium launches interdisciplinary effort to reimagine global food systems

May 1, 2025 - Stanford News
A new initiative led by Stanford Bio-X unites all seven Stanford schools to integrate research, education, and innovation for a healthier, more sustainable food future. At the kickoff symposium, researchers discussed topics including optimal diets, climate resilience, and AI.
New RNA and protein tools may improve cell therapies

March 28, 2025 - Stanford Engineering News
Two new papers from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and previous Bio-X Fellow Xiaojing Gao - one with lead authors Stanford Bio-X Fellow Carlos A. Aldrete and Connor C. Call, supported by a Stanford Bio-X Seed Grant; the second with lead authors Stanford Bio-X Fellow Luis Santiago Mille-Fragoso and Xiaowei Zhang, and co-author Stanford Bio-X Fellow K. Eerik Kaseniit, supported by another Seed Grant - demonstrate novel ways of fine-tuning cellular functions, with applications in cancer treatment, diagnostics, and more.
Stanford Bio-X PhD Fellow and Clark Graduate Student Named Among Top 30 Young Scientists for Climate Research

March 18, 2025
Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellow Isabella Archibald and Clark Center graduate student Grace Callander received the Inflection Award, recognizing the 30 best young scientists in the world working on breakthrough solutions to climate change!

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