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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Using storytelling to gain insight into patient perspectives on disease
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. -
New immunotherapy possible for canine cancer
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. -
More GABA in one brain region linked to better working memory
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. -
Traumatic stress changes brains of boys, girls differently
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. -
Pinpointing specific cells may help thwart congenital heart disease
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. -
DNA sequencing determines lymphoma origin, prognosis
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. -
High-intensity statins linked to better survival for cardiovascular patients
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. -
Persis Drell named Stanford provost
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. -
Q&A with Professor Susan Holmes: Statistics in the era of big data
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. -
Researchers take step toward gene therapy for sickle cell disease
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. -
Hedgehog pathway plays a role in colitis, new research suggests
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. -
Stanford researcher examines pulmonary hypertension — and its link to methamphetamine
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. -
Exploring the promise and challenges of cancer immunotherapy
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. -
Gene therapy for blistering skin disease appears to enhance healing in clinical trial
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. -
Scientists battling deafness uncover clues inside inner ears of chickens
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. -
DNA damage response links short telomeres, heart disorder in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
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. -
A look at scientists’ efforts to conquer a deadly brain tumor
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. -
Mystery of tropical human parasite swimming solved by researchers
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. -
Record set for capturing and storing solar energy in hydrogen fuel
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. -
Stanford biochemist Peter Kim leads the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub project on infectious disease
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. -
Hormone that controls maturation of fat cells discovered
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. -
New tool to ID disease-causing genetic changes developed at Stanford
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. -
Stanford researchers create new special-purpose computer that may someday save us billions
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. -
Perovskite solar cell could outperform existing commercial technologies
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. -
Stanford researchers release virtual reality simulation that transports users to ocean of the future
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. -
Micro-balloons designed by Stanford Bio-X researchers could reveal how the small intestine adapts to dietary load
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. -
Withholding amino acid depletes blood stem cells
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. -
Faulty DNA repair makes for old, crotchety immune cells; triggers inflammatory disease
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. -
Scientists develop inflammation test to predict cardiovascular disease
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. -
Stanford researchers capture Central Asia's 'de-greening' over millions of years into a modern-day desert
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.