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.
October 26, 2016 - Stanford News
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub will include two major research projects. One, focusing on infectious disease, will be led by Bio-X affiliate Peter S. Kim.
October 25, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Mature fat cells produce a hormone that regulates the differentiation of nearby stem cells in response to glucocorticoid hormones and high-fat diets, Bio-X affiliates Brian Feldman and Tracey McLaughlin have found.
October 24, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
The team under Bio-X affiliate Gill Bejerano and 2010 Bio-X SIGF Aaron Wenger has gone another step toward ending diagnostic “near misses” by developing a more granular tool that automatically evaluates single-letter mistakes in the genetic code.
October 20, 2016 - Stanford News
Researchers including Bio-X affiliates Robert Byer and Hideo Mabuchi have made a new type of computer that can solve problems that challenge traditional computers.
October 20, 2016 - Stanford News
Researchers including Bio-X affiliate Stacey Bent have created a new type of solar cell that converts sunlight to electricity at efficiencies similar to current technology but at much lower cost.
October 18, 2016 - Stanford News
Supported by a Bio-X Seed Grant, Bio-X affiliated faculty Lucy O'Brien and Beth Pruitt find that a tiny micro-balloon that fits inside a fruit fly intestine could help to understand the forces or nutrients responsible for signaling the intestine to grow or shrink in response to food.
October 18, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new study from Bio-X affiliate Hiromitsu Nakauchi shows that a diet deficient in valine effectively depleted the blood stem cells in mice and made it possible to perform a blood stem cell transplantation on them.
October 18, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliates Connie Weyand, Jorg Goronzy, and Stuart Goodman have identified a failure in DNA repair that impels immune cells to become old and dangerous.
October 18, 2016 - Stanford News
From Bio-X affiliate Jeremy Bailenson, free science education software holds promise for spreading awareness and inspiring action on the issue of ocean acidification.
October 13, 2016 - Stanford News
The first large-scale map of rainfall declines could help researchers under Bio-X affiliate Page Chamberlain understand profound regional and global climate transformation.
October 13, 2016
The Bio-X Program would like to announce our call for applications for the Undergraduate Summer Research Program with funding available starting in the summer of 2017.
October 13, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new retrospective study of the health records of prostate cancer patients, from Bio-X affiliates Nigam Shah and Nicholas Leeper, supports an association between androgen deprivation therapy and future risk of dementia.
October 13, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A international team led by Bio-X affiliate Jonathan Pritchard used a new analytic technique to map recent evolution.
October 13, 2016 - Stanford News
A study from Bio-X affiliates Larry Crowder and Rob Dunbar shows that efforts to adopt protected areas in the Southern Ocean are thwarted by politics and fishing interests.
October 13, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
From Bio-X affiliates Holden Maecker, Joseph Wu, Mark Davis, and Francois Haddad, an assessment blending several measures of immune-cell responsiveness predicted cardiovascular problems in individuals who likely would have slipped under the radar.
September 21, 2016 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Manu Prakash, as assistant professor of bioengineering, has been awarded a “genius grant” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
September 21, 2016 - Stanford News
Stanford faculty will be part of a new collaboration created by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, co-led by Bio-X affiliate Steve Quake, to study biotechnology together with UC Berkeley and UCSF.
September 6, 2016
Bio-X Director Carla Shatz has won the the 2016 António Champalimaud Vision Award.
August 24, 2016
Join us for the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program Symposium! There will be 8 faculty talks, followed by a poster session with over 130 posters.
August 2, 2016 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliates Steve Quake's and Mark Davis's first, detailed map of the body's antibody production could suggest new treatment options for immune disorders.
July 28, 2016 - Stanford News
A long-standing collaboration between Stanford, including Bio-X affiliate Robert Waymouth, and IBM chemists has led to the development of a catalyst that could make biodegradable plastics derived from renewable materials.
July 28, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
By scanning the brains of subjects while they were hypnotized, researchers under Bio-X affiliate Michael Greicius were able to see the neural changes associated with hypnosis.
July 27, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
The dream, say Bio-X affiliates Jan Liphardt and Russ Altman, is to have cancer-relevant medical data flow unimpeded around the world, so that everyone, wherever they are, can see and use this information.
July 27, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Hanadie Yousef studies how the body ages under Bio-X affiliate Tony Wyss-Coray. Her current research is based on a study from the lab of Bio-X affiliate Thomas Rando.
July 20, 2016 - Stanford News
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate Shripad Tuljapurkar found that a reduction in child mortality is a key driver in the declining lifespan inequality gap in wealthy countries.
July 14, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Nicholas Leeper, Irv Weissman, and Thomas Quertermous find that a biological drug could be used to combat cardiovascular disease by targeting the actual lesions bearing direct responsibility: atherosclerotic plaques.
July 14, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study under Bio-X affiliates Irv Weissman, Anshul Kundaje, William Talbot, and Philip Beachy shows that combining positive and negative signals can steer stem cells down developmental paths to become specialized tissues that could be used in the clinic.
July 14, 2016 - Stanford News
Stanford physics and history students under Bio-X affiliate Hideo Mabuchi explore how hands-on investigations can provide insights into the past in an art and science learning lab.
July 13, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Allan Reiss is working with the non-profit the Specialized Foundation, planning to use a precision-health approach to develop treat individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
July 13, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliates Vittorio Sebastiano, Bertha Chen, and Hiromitsu Nakauchi have devised a way to study the gene-expression patterns of individual cells to identify regions of the blastocyst that give rise to a structure that makes the tissues of the embryo.