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.
March 29, 2024 - Stanford News
Kuhl aims to continue Bio-X’s legacy of facilitating multidisciplinary fundamental research and innovation.
December 1, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A team of Stanford and Harvard researchers, including Bio-X affiliate Daniel Jarosz, has identified a chemical that gives yeast cells a prion- based superpower of sorts.
November 30, 2016 - Stanford News
A new process from Bio-X affiliate Eric Appel makes hydrogels useful for more applications, including wine-making and firefighting.
November 29, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford researchers including Bio-X affiliate Jason Andrews urge the World Health Organization to develop sweeping new guidelines to help end parasitic worm diseases.
November 28, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Corie Crowe is one of the longest surviving heart transplant recipients in the country. Bio-X affiliate Daniel Bernstein is her cardiologist, as well as the director of the Children’s Heart Center at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
November 28, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
With support from a Bio-X Seed Grant, Bio-X affiliates Jennifer Cochran, Erinn Rankin, and Albert Koong, Seed Grant Collaborator Amato Giaccia, and Bio-X Fellow Mihalis Kariolis created a new cell surface receptor that can inhibit cancer growth in mice.
November 28, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stem cells produce a decoy protein to attenuate growth signals. Bio-X affiliate Thomas Rando hopes that artificially regulating this pathway might help keep muscles supple in muscular dystrophy or during normal aging.
November 24, 2016 - Stanford News
Squeezing a platinum catalyst a fraction of a nanometer nearly doubles its catalytic activity: the finding, from Bio-X affiliate Yi Cui, could lead to better fuel cells and other clean energy technologies.
November 22, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Daria Mochly-Rosen and Mehrdad Shamloo identified half a dozen biomarkers in the body accesible through a blood or urine sample that can indicate the progress of Huntington’s disease.
November 18, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The CyberKnife, invented at Stanford, is being used to treat a young girl’s arteriovenous malformation, a deadly tangle of abnormal blood vessels. Bio-X affiliate Steven Chang is one of the doctors overseeing her treatment.
November 17, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
What if the smartest minds of our generation could be brought together with a single click? Bio-X affiliate Michael Bernstein explains how design and technology intertwine in crowdsourcing.
November 17, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The FDA is funding a collaboration between Stanford and UCSF to improve the regulatory infrastructure that helps to shape modern biomedical research, including a project headed by Bio-X affiliate Russ Altman.
November 17, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Working with Bio-X affiliate Henry C. Lee, 11 students partnered with six patients and their families to understand what each patient’s daily life was like, as well as the impact of a patient’s diagnosis on his or her family members.
November 16, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The work extends research by Stanford scientists, including Bio-X affiliate Irving Weissman, who found that blocking CD47 might be useful in treating human cancer.
November 15, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The amount of a neurotransmitter called GABA in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex predicted individuals’ ability to keep several things in mind simultaneously, researchers under Bio-X affiliate Jong Yoon found.
November 11, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A brain region that integrates emotions and actions appears to undergo accelerated maturation in adolescent girls with PTSD, but not in boys with the condition, a Stanford study under Bio-X affiliate Victor Carrion has found.
November 10, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliates Sean Wu, Stephen Quake, Philip Tsao, and Thomas Quertermous and their colleagues have created an atlas of cells in the embryonic heart that can be used to pinpoint exactly where diseased cells originated from.
November 9, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study, under Bio-X affiliates Maximilian Diehn, Ash Alizadeh, and Ron Levy of 92 lymphoma patients suggests that monitoring cancer DNA in blood may work for other tumors.
November 9, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In a retrospective study of patients with cardiovascular disease, researchers under Bio-X affiliate Joshua Knowles concluded that high-intensity statin treatments increased rates of survival.
November 7, 2016 - Stanford News
An accomplished academic leader and longtime member of the Stanford community, Drell will become the university’s chief academic officer and chief budgetary officer. She will assume the role Feb. 1.
November 7, 2016 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate and Clark Center building residnet Susan Holmes was working in data science before it was a field. Now her research visualizing and interpreting data is becoming increasingly important as more fields are producing vast amounts of data.
November 7, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Using the CRISPR gene-editing technique in stem cells, Bio-X affiliates Matthew Porteus, Kenneth Weinberg, Anupama Narla, and Ravindra Majeti and 2015 USRP participant Joab Camarena repaired the gene that causes sickle cell disease.
November 2, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates James Chen, Maximilian Diehn, Michael Clarke, and Philip Beachy have found that manipulation of the Hedgehog pathway can have dramatic effects on mice with ulcerative colitis, a form of inflammatory bowel disease.
November 2, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Patients with methamphetamine-induced pulmonary hypertension have provided one direction for the research of Bio-X affiliate Vinicio de Jesus Perez.
November 2, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Can the immune system be trained to protect against invaders from the inside, like cancer cells? That’s the key question behind the rapidly expanding field of cancer immunotherapy, Bio-X affiliate Crystal Mackall explains.
November 1, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Peter Marinkovich, Jean Tang, Peter Lorenz, and Paul Khavari's trial is the first time skin-based gene therapy has been shown as safe and effective in humans.
October 31, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate John Oghalai is working on understanding exactly how birds hear sounds differently than humans, a key area of research for studying deafness in humans, because birds have the ability to regrow lost hair cells in order to regain hearing loss.
October 31, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new study from Bio-X affiliates Helen Blau and Joe Wu and Seed Grant Collaborator Amato Giaccia shows that telomeres shorten without cell division in a mouse model.
October 31, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Michelle Monje and other scientists around the world are using the latest research methods to look for new approaches to diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma treatment.
October 31, 2016 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Manu Prakash and Bio-X Bowes Fellow Deepak Krishnamurthy combined live observation, mathematical insights and robots to reveal the movement of parasitic larvae that cause schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease.
October 31, 2016 - Stanford News
Stanford scientists including Bio-X affiliate James Harris used the electricity generated by high-efficiency solar cells to turn water into a chemical capable of storing 30 percent of the sun’s energy over long periods of time.