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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Nerve cells actively repress alternative cell fates
April 5, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A regulatory protein blocks the expression of non-neuronal genes in nerve cells, find Bio-X affiliates Marius Wernig, Thomas Südhof, and Lars Steinmetz, and Travel Awardee Cheen Euong Ang, suggesting there are many master regulators for cell types. -
Monounsaturated fats help roundworms live longer
April 5, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Roundworms storing monounsaturated fats in their guts live longer, according to Bio-X affiliate Anne Brunet. Their study links epigenetic regulation with fat metabolism, and may have implications for many species. -
Hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery systems for Type 1 diabetes come of age
April 5, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers including Bio-X affiliate Bruce Buckingham are testing easier ways for younger children with Type 1 diabetes to get the doses of insulin they need. -
Ultrasound and microbubbles flag malignant cancer in humans
April 3, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers including Bio-X affiliates Jürgen Willmann, Sam Gambhir, and Amelie Lutz have developed tiny bubbles that bind to malignant tumors, making them visible to ultrasound imaging. -
Deep learning algorithm that could boost drug development
April 3, 2017 - Stanford News
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate Vijay Pande, including 2015 USRP participant Han Altae-Tran, show how an advanced form of machine learning that works off small amounts of data can be used to solve problems in drug discovery. -
Study shows how slow breathing induces tranquility
March 30, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Mark Krasnow, John Huguenard, and Liqun Luo have identified a small group of neurons that communicates goings-on in the brain’s respiratory control center to the structure responsible for generating arousal throughout the brain. -
Previously elusive targets for cancer immunotherapy identified
March 30, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A collaborative team including Bio-X affiliates Ash Alizadeh, Joshua Elias, Ron Levy, Mark Davis, and Jan Carette studied patients with mantle cell lymphoma, utilizing a novel approach to identify cancer-specific antigens. -
Team led by Sanjay Basu wins third place in data analysis contest
March 24, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The team, led by Bio-X affiliate Sanjay Basu, used the data to develop and validate a clinical decision score that identifies patients likely to experience benefits when undergoing intensive blood pressure treatment. -
Stanford scientists study Pavlovian conditioning in neural networks
March 22, 2017 - Stanford News
By looking at groups of neurons in the emotional center of the brain, researchers under Bio-X affiliate Mark Schnitzer elucidated how neural networks in the brain form associations, like those made famous by Ivan Pavlov. -
Stanford researchers adapt a DIY robotics kit to give STEM students tools to automate biology experiments
March 21, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Ingmar Riedel-Kruse empowers students and teachers to create inexpensive automated robotic assemblies to do biology lab work in classrooms. -
Stanford scientists find a previously unknown role for the cerebellum
March 20, 2017 - Stanford News
Researchers believed that the cerebellum did little more than process our senses and control our muscles. Bio-X affiliates Liqun Luo and Mark Schnitzer have studied the most densely packed neurons in our brains to reveal that it may do much more. -
Studies of scientific bias targeting the right problems
March 20, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The biggest single source of bias across all fields of science comes from so-called small-study effects, Stanford researchers including Bio-X affiliate John Ioannidis report. -
Moderate exercise may benefit patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
March 17, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Euan Ashley finds that moderate exercise may be safe for patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and could provide important health benefits. -
Stanford scientists create three-dimensional bladder reconstruction
March 16, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliates Audrey Bowden and Joseph Liao, with Travel Awardee Kristen Lurie, have created a 3D computer reconstruction of a patient’s bladder. The technique could help doctors locate tumors or other disorders and prepare for surgery. -
Stanford scientists reveal how grass developed a better way to breathe
March 16, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Dominique Bergmann discovered how grasses produce stomata that make them better able to withstand drought or high temperatures than many other plants, which could someday lead to crops that can better survive climate change. -
Antibody fights pediatric brain tumors in preclinical testing
March 15, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Antibodies against the CD47 “don’t eat me” signal were shown to target 5 kinds of pediatric brain tumors, say Bio-X affiliates Samuel Cheshier, Irving Weissman, Griffith Harsh, Michelle Monje, Ravindra Majeti, Gerald Grant, and Gary Steinberg. -
Unproven stem cell 'therapy' blinds three patients at Florida clinic
March 15, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
After three patients were blinded following a treatment marketed as a stem cell clinical trial, Bio-X affiliate Jeffrey Goldberg calls for increased patient education and regulation. -
Taking painkillers with sleeping pills is an increasingly risky business
March 14, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Researchers including Bio-X affiliate Sean Mackey have determined that taking strong prescription painkillers together with sleeping pills is associated with greater risk of overdose. -
As Moore’s law nears its physical limits, a new generation of brain-like computers comes of age
March 13, 2017 - Stanford News
Normal computer chips aren’t up to the challenges of next-generation devices. Bio-X affiliate Kwabena Boahen has laid out a way forward, using ideas built in to our brains. -
Pancreatic cancer, diabetes link explored by Stanford researchers
March 13, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Seung Kim and former Stanford research associate Jonghyeob Lee have devised a way to mimic the earliest stages of pancreatic cancer development using human pancreatic cells implanted into mice. -
So long stiffness: Stanford engineers create a stretchable plastic electrode
March 10, 2017 - Stanford News
Paving the way for flexible electronics, Bio-X affiliates Zhenan Bao and Christian Linder and Travel Award recipient Noelle Rabiah have developed a plastic electrode that stretches like rubber but carries electricity like wires. -
Memorization tool bulks up brain’s internal connections, scientists say
March 8, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliate Michael Greicius found that teaching ordinary people a technique used by “memory athletes” not only boosted their recall ability but also induced lasting changes in the organization of their brains. -
Stanford Bio-X remembers William Bowes
March 7, 2017
Among philanthropist William Bowes’s many contributions to science are hundreds of interdisciplinary graduate students he supported through Bio-X Bowes Fellowships. He passed away in December 2016. -
The beadnik: Polly Fordyce uses something tiny to do something big
March 6, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliate Polly Fordyce uses microfluidic tools to understand protein interactions in the body — knowledge that could help researchers develop therapeutics for a variety of diseases. She collaborates with Bio-X affiliated faculty members Matthew Bogyo and Martha Cyert, and the latter collaboration is supported by a Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grant. -
Stanford study seeks to make cycling safer and more comfortable
March 2, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Michael Eisenberg is conducting the Stanford CYCling and Lower Effects (CYCLE) study to hone in on the factors affecting the comfort and safety of cycling. -
Brain scans could help predict adolescent drug use before it starts
February 22, 2017 - Stanford News
Impulsive behavior in teens can go hand in hand with drug use, but the link is weak and doesn’t necessarily predict future behavior. Bio-X affiliate Brian Knutson and colleagues think they can do better, using images of the brain. -
Toddlers’ grammar skills not inherent, but learned, new research says
February 22, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Michael Frank and other researchers used a novel statistical approach to analyze children’s early speech and found evidence that toddlers develop knowledge of grammar with time and practice. -
Brain-computer interface advance allows fast, accurate typing by people with paralysis
February 21, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In work by Bio-X affiliates Krishna Shenoy, Jaime Henderson, and Paul Nuyujukian, supported by the Bio-X NeuroVentures Program, three participants with movement impairment controlled an onscreen cursor by imagining hand movements. -
Listening in on the brain: A 15-year odyssey
February 21, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Krishna Shenoy and Jaime Henderson have worked together to develop an experimental technology that could one day allow people with paralysis to affect the world around them using only their minds. -
Drug combination defeats dengue, Ebola in mice
February 27, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
To develop a potential antiviral treatment, Bio-X affiliates Shirit Einav and Claude Nagamine, with support from a Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, adopted an unusual approach: they targeted proteins the infected individual makes, and the virus needs.