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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.

Anne Brunet awarded 2022 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences
April 14, 2022 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Anne Brunet was awarded the 2022 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences for her efforts to understand the mechanism of aging.

Stanford scientists use nanotechnology to boost the performance of a key industrial catalyst
May 18, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Robert Sinclair finds that nanoscale stretching or compressing boosts the performance of ceria, a material used in catalytic converters and clean-energy tech.
Price of protection: Immune-gene version, great at combating leprosy, is not without drawbacks
May 18, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Peter Parham examined a particular version of a gene which encodes for an important cell-surface protein that’s a key player in our immune response.
Don’t think of heart disease as inevitable, Stanford expert says
May 18, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Joshua Knowles argues that although many treat heart disease as though it is inevitable, this is not the case.
Cancer therapy may work in unexpected way
May 17, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
An antibody to the cell receptor PD-1 may launch a two-pronged assault on cancer by initiating attacks by both T cells and macrophages, a Stanford study from Bio-X affiliate Irv Weissman has found.
Genetic patterns could aid scientists and police, but raise privacy concerns, Stanford scientists say
May 15, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Noah Rosenberg finds that new way of connecting distinct sets of DNA markers could help police and scientists, but it may raise privacy concerns as well.
A look at cancer epigenetics
May 11, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Howard Chang is the co-creator of “ATAC-seq” (Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high throughput sequencing), a next-generation test for scanning DNA to assess which of its genes are activated.
Stanford engineers create experimental technology to monitor and maintain drug levels in the body
May 10, 2017 - Stanford News
Technology from Bio-X affiliate H. Tom Soh can monitor and maintain the drug levels in animals' bloodstreams, which could help deliver optimal doses of life-saving drugs.
Stanford researchers develop crowdsourcing software to convene rapid, on-demand 'flash organizations'
May 10, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Michael Bernstein's research addresses flash organizations, which enable anyone to assemble an organization and pursue complex, open-ended goals.
Team brings quantum computing closer to reality with new materials
May 9, 2017 - Stanford News
Quantum computing could outsmart current computing if scientists figure out how to make it practical. Bio-X affiliates Jelena Vuckovic, Nicholas Melosh, and Steve Chu are investigating new materials that could become the basis for such an advance.
Stanford biologist Robert Sapolsky ponders the best and worst of us, plus free will
May 8, 2017 - Stanford News
With the publication of his latest book, Bio-X affiliate Robert Sapolsky tackles the best and worst of human behavior and the nature of justice in the absence of free will.
Scientists crowdsource autism data to learn where resource gaps exist
May 8, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford scientists including Bio-X affiliate Dennis Wall have launched a crowdsourcing project to pinpoint areas across the globe that have few autism experts, leading to delayed care for kids who live there, and to find ways to fill them.
Stanford study provides new understanding of breast growth disorders
May 4, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliates Philip Beachy and Michael Clarke have discovered a new way that the GLI2 gene impacts breast development: they found that GLI2 activity helps control mammary stem cells in mice.
Faculty and students at Stanford argue for increased study of games and interactive media
May 3, 2017 - Stanford News
Faculty, staff and students Bio-X affiliates Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and Dan Schwartz, are pushing to embrace and pursue the study of games and interactive media.
Stanford researchers analyze what a warming planet means for mosquito-borne diseases
May 3, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Erin Mordecai finds that the ideal temperature for the spread of mosquito-born diseases is 29 degrees C, which could help predict disease outbreaks.
5 Questions: Samuel So on stamping out viral hepatitis in the U.S.
May 3, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Liver disease expert, leading anti-hepatitis campaigner, and Bio-X affiliate Samuel So recently discussed what it will take to rub out viral hepatitis, which causes more than 20,000 U.S. deaths annually.
Flexible, organic and biodegradable: Stanford researchers develop new wave of electronics
May 1, 2017 - Stanford News
A semiconductor developed by researchers under Bio-X affiliate Zhenan Bao, including 2013 Bio-X Fellow Allister McGuire, is as flexible as skin and easily degradable.
How doctors are battling “an unknown enemy”
April 26, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Euan Ashley is one of the principal investigators at the Stanford site of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN), a national network created to diagnose very rare diseases.
Scientists assemble working human forebrain circuits in a lab dish
April 26, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Sergiu Pasca, John Huguenard, Joachim Hallmayer, Jonathan Bernstein, and Lars Steinmetz fused two stem-cell-derived neural spheroids and watched as the two sets of neurons migrated and connected.
Moving toward multi-pronged treatment for the worst childhood brain tumor
April 24, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
New research from Bio-X affiliates Michelle Monje and Joanna Wysocka suggests two potential drug targets for the pediatric brain tumor diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma.
Scientists test links between extreme weather and climate change
April 24, 2017 - Stanford News
A new four-step “framework” from researchers including Bio-X affiliate Bala Rajaratnam aims to test the contribution of climate change to record-setting extreme weather events.
Stanford researchers use molecular evidence to pinpoint when mammals became nocturnal
April 20, 2017 - Stanford News
In research by Bio-X affiliate Elizabeth Hadly, new genetic evidence suggests that early mammals had good night-time vision, adding to fossil and behavioral studies.
Stanford researchers use color-coding to pinpoint locations of gut-bacterial strains
April 20, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Justin Sonnenburg has been able to visualize multiple bacterial strains in lab mice’s gut by making them express unique combinations of fluorescent proteins.
Study shows protein in human umbilical cord blood rejuvenates old mice’s impaired learning, memory
April 19, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Umbilical cord blood from human newborns boosted old mice’s brain function and performance, shows research from Bio-X affiliates Tony Wyss-Coray and Martin Angst.
Stanford undergrads win Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for work combating antibiotic resistance
April 19, 2017 - Stanford News
Stanford undergrads including 2016 Bio-X USRP participant Zachary Rosenthal win a national prize for their work on an antibiotic to combat multidrug-resistant bacteria.
Protein primes mouse stem cells to quickly repair injury
April 18, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Pretreatment with a stem-cell-activating protein significantly enhances healing in mice, Bio-X affiliate Thomas Rando says. The approach could eventually help people going into surgery or combat heal better from injuries they sustain.
Fibrosis reversed when ‘don’t eat me’ signal blocked
April 17, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A common signaling pathway unites diverse fibrotic diseases in humans, Bio-X affiliates Gerlinde Wernig, Irv Weissman, and Garry Nolan and 2014 USRP participant Camille Van Neste find. An antibody called anti-CD47 reverses fibrosis in mice.
Wearable sweat sensor can diagnose cystic fibrosis, study finds
April 17, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A wearable sensor developed by Stanford researchers under Bio-X affiliate Ron Davis can diagnose diseases by measuring molecular constituents of sweat, such as chloride ions and glucose.
To dissolve mysteries of the cytoskeleton, Stanford researchers create new tool
April 13, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Ben Barres has come up with a tool that will allow researchers to study the cytoskeleton with much greater precision than has previously been possible.
Simulation shows how transporter proteins do their work in cells
April 13, 2017 - Stanford News
Cells must continually pass molecules in and out to sustain life. Supported by a Seed Grant, Bio-X affiliates Ron Dror and Liang Feng have developed a computer algorithm to capture how these crucial proteins work.
Suppressing single protein extends life span of mice with ALS-like disease
April 12, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A set of experiments from Bio-X affiliate Aaron Gitler reveals that suppressing a protein called ataxin 2 dramatically extends survival and improves motor function in a mouse model of ALS.

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