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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3D culture method lets slow-developing brain cells mature in a dish
August 16, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Sergiu Pasca, Ben Barres, Steve Quake, and Richard Reimer, as well as Stanford Bio-X Fellow Steven Sloan, have used a revolutionary 3-D culture technique to nurse astrocytes to maturity in laboratory glassware. -
Epiphany in the fish lab
August 16, 2017 - Stanford News
Studying the brains of fish with Stanford Bio-X affiliate Russ Fernald led 2014 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program participant Danielle Katz in an unexpected direction – a degree in mechanical engineering. -
Some post-surgery alternatives to opioids can reduce pain, study finds
August 16, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Tina Hernandez-Boussard examined the most common non-pharmaceutical pain management therapies following knee replacement surgery, finding that acupuncture and electrotherapy could reduce and delay opioid use. -
Genome architecture guides stem cell fate, Stanford researchers find
August 15, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Paul Khavari, Howard Chang, Michael Snyder, Anshul Kundaje, and William Greenleaf, with Stanford Bio-X Fellow Adam Rubin, have used new mapping techniques to peer into the deepest recesses of tissue-specific stem cells. -
Enzyme crashes on DNA strands could yield insights into cancer
August 14, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Karlene Cimprich could help explain why DNA damage occurs in cancer cells. -
A single test to spot effects of cancer treatment in teenagers
August 9, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
To make it easier for physicians to detect chemotherapy’s after-effects, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Heike Daldrup-Link, Michael Moseley, Phillip Yang, Kristen Yeom, and Kathleen Sakamoto tested a method to assess problems in a single scan. -
Virtual competitors to vie for a different kind of athletic title
August 7, 2017 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Scott Delp and Stanford Bio-X Fellows Jennifer Hicks and Carmichael Ong work on models of the bone, muscles and nerves that control our bodies. A new competition is crowdsourcing the search for such tools. -
New tool developed by Stanford engineers helps parched regions plan how to replenish aquifers
August 4, 2017 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Richard Luthy has created a planning tool to help urban water utilities develop efficient, cost-effective ways to replenish aquifers. -
Q&A with Stanford’s Marcus Feldman on the extension of biology through culture
August 4, 2017 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Marcus Feldman is a pioneer in the field of cultural evolution and has worked on diverse topics. He discusses the importance of cultural evolution and its deep ties to biological evolution. -
5 Questions: Kelly Ormond on creating ground rules for human germline editing
August 3, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Kelly Ormond discusses a formal policy statement endorsing the idea that researchers continue editing genes in human germ cells. -
Experts weigh in on the “biggest public health epidemic of a generation”
August 2, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
The U.S. opioid epidemic is making headline news. With all the press coverage, it’s tempting to think the problem is getting the attention it needs. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Sean Mackey explains that this couldn’t be farther from the truth. -
Autism may reflect excitation-inhibition imbalance in brain
August 2, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Karl Deisseroth used advanced lab technologies to show, in mice, that symptoms of autism can be countered by reducing the ratio of excitatory to inhibitory neuronal firing in the forebrain. -
Freezing of IVF embryos linked to higher pregnancy rates in some cases
August 1, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study led Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Lynn Westphal and a biotechnology company found that women who have high progesterone levels when their eggs are retrieved benefit from waiting to receive embryos. -
Researchers explore possible alternative to knee replacement
August 1, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Jason Dragoo is leading a study that is examining whether stem cell therapy can improve cartilage growth and decrease inflammation caused by osteoarthritis in the knee. -
Researchers identify biomarkers associated with chronic fatigue syndrome severity
July 31, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Mark Davis and Holden Maecker used high-throughput analysis to link inflammation to chronic fatigue syndrome. -
Tumors caused by pluripotent stem cells can be tackled with radiation
July 27, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Joseph Wu, Patricia Nguyen, Irv Weissman, and Edward Graves and Stanford Bio-X Fellow Andrew Lee have found that, in mice, it’s possible to halt or reverse the growth of human teratoma cells arising from the injection of pluripotent stem cells with radiation. -
Social influences can override aggression in male mice
July 27, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Nirao Shah and Surya Ganguli and Stanford Bio-X Fellow Niru Maheswaranathan find that a male mouse’s susceptibility to aggression depends on whether it has been housed with other mice or in isolation. -
It takes a village (of proteins) to raise an endothelial cell
July 26, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Ngan Huang and Trevor Hastie have devised a way to quickly assess the effect of many combinations of proteins on the differentiation of stem cells into endothelial cells to pinpoint the ones most likely to be clinically useful. -
New method of testing patients with heart muscle disease promising
July 25, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Francois Haddad, Euan Ashley, and Joseph Wu explore uses of treadmill exercise testing with heart sonograms as an improved method of determining treatment plans for patients with two types of cardiomyopathy. -
New camera designed by Stanford researchers could improve robot vision and virtual reality
July 21, 2017 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Gordon Wetzstein has developed a 4D camera with an extra-wide field of view. It could improve robotic vision and augmented reality. -
RNA circles can spur immune response, protect cells against viruses, Stanford researchers find
July 19, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Howard Chang has uncovered an unexpected immune function of circular RNA molecules that appears to protect cells from viral infection. -
Rift Valley fever virus illustrates interdependence between environment, global health
July 19, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Recent cases of Rift Valley fever virus warrant vigilance given its potential effects on local and national economies, says Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Desirée LaBeaud. -
Stanford researchers develop a new type of soft, growing robot
July 19, 2017 - Stanford News
A newly developed vine-like robot from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Allison Okamura can grow across long distances without moving its whole body. It could prove useful in search and rescue operations and medical applications. -
Inducible loops enable 3D gene expression studies
July 18, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Kevin Wang and Sharon Pitteri have devised a way to use the immensely popular gene editing tool CRISPR/Cas9 to loop together any two DNA segments. -
Imaging reveals how well PTSD patients will respond to psychotherapy
July 17, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Amit Etkin and James Gross measured brain activity in PTSD patients before and after psychotherapy and found that they could predict how well patients would respond to treatment. -
Stanford scholars examine ecological underpinnings of rural poverty
July 14, 2017 - Stanford News
A first-of-its-kind effort from researchers including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Giulio De Leo combines economic, ecological and epidemiological models. The lessons learned could inform interventions to lift people out of poverty. -
Virtual reality system helps surgeons, reassures patients
July 11, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Medicine, including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Gary Steinberg, is using a new software system that combines imaging from MRIs, CT scans and angiograms to create a 3D model that physicians and patients can see and manipulate. -
A new ‘high rise’ chip breaks computing’s data bottleneck in two ways
July 11, 2017 - Stanford Engineering
Silicon chips are single story, but using new semiconductor materials developed by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Subhasish Mitra, H.-S. Philip Wong, and Roger Howe, computer logic and memory can be stacked like floors in a building. -
Stanford researchers find intriguing clues about obesity by counting steps via smartphones
July 10, 2017 - Stanford News
From steps counted by smartphones, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Jure Leskovec and Scott Delp and Stanford Bio-X Fellow Jennifer Hicks discover “activity inequality.” -
Researchers observe unexpected flipper flapping in humpback whales
July 10, 2017 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jeremy Goldbogen has found that humpback whales flap their foreflippers, which helps explain whale maneuvering and could improve designs inspired by their movement.