Ellen Kuhl named director of Stanford Bio-X
March 29, 2024 - Stanford News
Kuhl aims to continue Bio-X’s legacy of facilitating multidisciplinary fundamental research and innovation.
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members and fellows are generating scientific advances that expand our understanding of how the body works and will ultimately improve human health. These news stories and press releases describe some of those breakthroughs.
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‘Virtual biopsy’ lets clinicians analyze skin noninvasively
April 10, 2024 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and previous Stanford Bio-X fellow Adam de la Zerda and Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Kavita Sarin and Steve Chu, with lead author Stanford Bio-X Fellow Yonatan Winetraub and co-author Travel Award recipient Itamar Terem, develop a new imaging method to create a cell-by-cell reconstruction of skin or other tissue without taking a biopsy. -
Stanford Medicine study flags unexpected cells in lung as suspected source of severe COVID
April 10, 2024 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Catherine Blish, Mark Krasnow, Peter Kim, W. E. Moerner, Christin Kuo, Julia Salzman, Stephen Quake, Joseph Shrager, and Irving Weissman, with co-lead authors Stanford Bio-X Fellow Timothy Wu, Dr. Kyle Travaglini, and Dr. Arjun Rustagi, as well as co-authors Stanford Bio-X Fellows Aaron Wilk and Daniel Liu have found a previously overlooked type of immune cell allows SARS-CoV-2 to proliferate. The discovery has important implications for preventing severe COVID-19. -
A quarter century of Bio-X community science
March 26, 2024 - Stanford News
After 25 years of transformational research, Stanford Bio-X is still fueling new ideas and changing lives through a scientific community like no other. -
Weight loss caused by common diabetes drug tied to “anti-hunger” molecule in study
March 18, 2024 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A Stanford Medicine study from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Jonathan Long and Joshua Knowles, with co-authors Stanford Bio-X Fellow Veronica Li and Stanford Bio-X Travel Award recipient Wei Wei, found that metformin, a commonly prescribed diabetes drug associated with moderate weight loss, stimulates production of lac-phe, a molecule abundant after exercise. -
Going atom-by-atom, Stanford researchers craft a new precision drug for fighting COVID-19
March 13, 2024 - Stanford News
The rapidly evolving SARS-CoV-2 virus threatens the progress made in curbing the COVID-19 pandemic. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Michael Lin and Novo Nordisk Foundation-sponsored Stanford Bio-X Visiting Scholar Michael Westberg have developed a promising novel drug candidate, designed at the atomic level, that could help doctors halt the rise of lethal new drug resistant variants. Co-authors include Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Shirit Einav and Catherine Blish and Stanford Bio-X Fellows Xinzhi Zou and Yan Wu. -
New high-speed microscale 3D printing technique
March 13, 2024 - Stanford News
At their Clark Center lab, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Joseph DeSimone lead author Stanford Bio-X Travel Award recipient Jason Kronenfeld, and co-author Stanford Bio-X Travel Award recipient Max Saccone have developed a new process for microscale 3D printing creates particles of nearly any shape for applications in medicine, manufacturing, research and more – at the pace of up to 1 million particles a day. -
Smaller, more powerful stretchable electronics for wearables and implantables
March 13, 2024 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Zhenan Bao, with co-authors Stanford Bio-X Travel Award recipients Weichen Wang, Xiaozhou Ji, Theodore Gao, Yu Zheng, and Zhiao Yu, with co-first authors Dr. Donglai Zhong, Dr. Can Wu, and Stanford Bio-X Travel Award recipient Dr. Yuanwen Jiang, have developed soft integrated circuits that are powerful enough to drive a micro-LED screen and small enough to read thousands of sensors in a single square centimeter. -
Study details how low humidity could be a boon for viruses
March 12, 2024 - Stanford News
New Stanford research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and Clark Center building resident faculty member Dick Zare, with first author Dr. Mohammad Mofidfar, adds to evidence that the seasonality of respiratory illnesses, like COVID-19 or the flu, can be linked to indoor humidity levels. The study, which found that ventilation reduces the presence of naturally occurring disinfectant compounds in airborne microdroplets, could add another dimension to public health approaches to seasonal viruses. -
Our bacteria are more personal than we thought, Stanford Medicine-led study shows
March 12, 2024 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Michael Snyder, with co-lead authors Drs. Xin Zhou and Xiaotao Shen, and colleagues tracked the gut, mouth, nose and skin bacteria of 86 people for as long as six years to try to gauge what constitutes a healthy microbiome. -
A newly published protein structure helps explain how some anti-cancer immunotherapy treatments work
March 11, 2024 - Stanford News
A molecular “snapshot” of a protein can be critical to understanding its function. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jennifer Cochran, Stanford Bio-X Fellow Jack Silberstein, and Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program participant Jessica Frank, as well as co-authors at Stanford and NYU, have published and investigated a new structure of the protein LAG-3, which could enable the development of new cancer treatments. -
Understanding an overlooked hotspot for carbon emissions
March 11, 2024 - Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability News
Researchers have found that one-third of the organic carbon leached from peatland soils into canal waters in Southeast Asia gets broken down and released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.
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Model estimates who benefits most from frequent COVID-19 boosters
March 6, 2024 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study led by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Nathan Lo, with lead author Hailey Park, finds the benefit of frequent booster vaccination for COVID-19 is highest for those over 65 years and the immunocompromised. -
Researchers dial in on genetic culprit of disease
March 5, 2024 - Stanford Medicine Scope
New research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and previous Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program participant Jesse Engreitz, with co-lead authors Dr. Gavin R. Schnitzler and Helen Kang, finds that genome-wide association studies can lay the groundwork to more precisely assess a person’s risk for disease, detect diseases earlier, reveal a molecular understanding of how certain illnesses arise, and point to new therapeutic targets. -
25th Anniversary of Stanford Bio-X and 20th Anniversary of the James H. Clark Center
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Stanford Bio-X program and the 20th anniversary of the Clark Center building! Read the feature story and check out the timeline to celebrate with us!
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A new RNA editing tool could enhance cancer treatment
February 21, 2024 - Stanford News
The new study from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Stanley Qi and Crystal Mackall and Stanford Bio-X Fellow Crystal Chen, with lead author Stanford Bio-X Fellow Victor Tieu, found that an RNA-targeting CRISPR platform could tune immune cell metabolism without permanent genetic changes, potentially unveiling a relatively low-risk way to upgrade existing cell therapies for cancer. -
Stanford Medicine study identifies distinct brain organization patterns in women and men
February 20, 2024 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Vinod Menon, with co-lead authors Drs. Srikanth Ryali and Yuan Zhang, has developed a powerful new artificial intelligence model that can distinguish between male and female brains. -
Not all about neurons: A new avenue for treating neurodegeneration, injury
February 15, 2024 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jeffrey Goldberg believes a young, underexplored class of therapies called gliotherapeutics, which target and harness glia, will ultimately provide important new directions for treatment. -
Submit a Letter of Intent for the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program!
January 5, 2024
Stanford Bio-X is now accepting Letters of Intent for the 12th Round of the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program. -
Apply for the 2024 Stanford Bio-X, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, and Sarafan ChEM-H Fellowships!
January 5, 2024
The Stanford Bio-X Leadership Council is pleased to announce the 21st annual competition for Stanford Bio-X PhD Fellowships. -
2023-2024 RFP LIVE! Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowships @ Stanford Bio-X funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation
November 7, 2023
RFP LIVE NOW: the Stanford Bio-X Program and the Novo Nordisk Foundation have opened its call for applications for the Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowships @ Stanford Bio-X! -
Apply for the 2024 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program!
October 16, 2023
Applications for the 2024 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program are due Thursday, January 19, 2023, at 8am PST! -
Regeneration might be a whole-body affair
July 21, 2023 - Stanford News
In certain organisms, injuries on one part of the body can induce a healing response in another. New research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Bo Wang and James Ferrell, with lead author Stanford Bio-X Fellow Yuhang Fan and co-author Stanford Bio-X Fellow Xinzhi Zou suggests this whole-body response isn’t a side effect: it’s the main feature. -
Brain cancer specialists hope Biden’s Moonshot speeds therapies
June 12, 2023 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Michelle Monje and Michael Lim joined other thought leaders in Washington, D.C. to discuss what the Biden Administration-led Cancer Moonshot initiative could mean. -
A complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-based highly scalable flexible neural electrode interface
June 7, 2023 - Science Advances
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Nick Melosh and John Huguenard, with first author Stanford Bio-X Fellow Eric Zhao and co-author Travel Award recipient Pingyu Wang, have developed an electrode connector based on an ultra-conformable thin-film electrode array that enables multithousand channel counts at a millimeter scale. This work could allow existing devices to capture cortex-wide activity in the brain such as thoughts, actions, and perception. -
In Conversation with Professor Carla Shatz - Nature Neuroscience
June 2, 2023 - Nature Neuroscience
The work of Dr. Carla Shatz, the Sapp Family Provostial Professor, Catherine Holman Johnson Director of Stanford Bio-X, and Professor of Biology and Neurobiology at Stanford University, has illuminated mechanisms of visual system development and plasticity and has focused more recently on synaptic pruning mechanisms. -
Announcing the 2023 Stanford Bio-X PhD Fellows!
May 30, 2023
Stanford Bio-X is delighted to announce the 2023 cohort for the Stanford Bio-X PhD Graduate Student Fellowships. -
Scientists get a new view of digestion
May 23, 2023 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members KC Huang, David Relman, Susan Holmes, and George Triadafilopoulos, with co-lead authors Stanford Bio-X Fellow Rebecca Culver, Dr. Dari Shalon, Dr. Jessica A. Grembi, and Dr. Jacob Folz, as well as co-authors Stanford Bio-X Fellows Andrés Aranda-Díaz and Handuo Shi, have created a new device to sample the insides of the small intestine, including bile and bacteria. -
Previously Unknown Intracellular Electricity May Power Biology
April 28, 2023 - Chem
Newly discovered electrical activity within cells, spearheaded by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and Clark Center resident faculty member Dick Zare, could change the way researchers think about biological chemistry. -
Announcing the 2023 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program Cohort!
April 4, 2023
Stanford Bio-X is delighted to announce the 2023 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program (USRP) cohort! -
Padded helmet cover shows little protection for football players
March 28, 2023 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members David Camarillo, Michael Zeineh, and Gerald Grant, with Stanford Bio-X Travel Award Recipient Xianghao Zhan and co-first authors Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant Ashlyn Callan, found that a foam cap that fits over football helmets seemed to reduce the force of blows in lab experiments — but not on the field.