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.
July 6, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Manu Prakash has “a very simple vision of every single kid in the world carrying around a microscope in their pocket.”
July 5, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
Bio-X affiliate and bioengineer Christina Smolke turns yeast into painkillers.
July 5, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
Bio-X affiliate Jennifer Dionne's work to harness light will allow us to create even more advanced electronics, among other technologies.
June 30, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Jin Hyung Lee and 2012 Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellow Andrew Weitz have married two sophisticated brain-research technologies to facilitate a clearer understanding of the brain circuitry underlying Parkinson’s disease.
June 30, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
With Bio-X affiliate KT Park, Stanford resident of pediatrics and anesthesia Adam Was measured the workload of 26 residents and quantified their workload intensity.
June 29, 2016 - Stanford News
An undergraduate entrepreneurship program run by Stanford ChEM-H and Bio-X affiliate Chaitan Khosla is helping students, including Bio-X USRP participant Zach Rosenthal, design and test new drugs to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
June 28, 2016 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliates Nicholas Melosh, John Huguenard, and H.-S. Philip Wong develop new tools for probing the inner workings of neurons to help scientists understand and heal the brain.
June 27, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
A team of researchers including Bio-X affiliate Michael Bernstein explore why “flash teams” of professionals coming together for projects can have profound implications for the way organizations work.
June 27, 2016 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Reinhold Dauskardt's group's discovery that the protective layers in chips react differently to pushes and pulls could lead to more durable electronics.
June 22, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Sandy Napel discusses how Graphic Processing Units are crucial to radiologists, as they can rapidly process large medical imaging datasets from CT, MRI, ultrasound and even conventional x-rays.
June 22, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Ngan Huang, Rajesh Dash, and Phillip Yang collaborated with industry to design a possible new treatment for lymphedema.
June 22, 2016 - Stanford News
Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, stopped by Bio-X Affiliate Jeremy Bailenson's Virtual Human Interaction Lab last week to learn more about the pro-social applications of virtual reality.
June 21, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate John Ioannidis makes the case that despite its name, much research that aims to improve outcomes in the clinic falls short.
June 20, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliates Jan Carette, Peter Sarnow, and Josh Elias are disabling mosquito-borne viruses — by selectively shutting down genes in the humans they infect.
June 16, 2016 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Yi Cui and colleagues have developed new ways to improve hydrogen production and rechargeable zinc batteries.
June 16, 2016 - Stanford News
Partially supported by a Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, Bio-X affiliates Jennifer Cochran, Michelle Monje, and Gerald Grant and Bio-X Bowes Fellow Shelley Ackerman find that latching chemotherapy drugs onto proteins could treat hard-to-reach tumors.
June 16, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate May Han and her colleagues have pinpointed the molecular basis for a defective response to a first-line therapy among multiple sclerosis patients with gene variants.
June 15, 2016 - Stanford News
An instrument built in part by Stanford researchers, including Bio-X affiliate Robert Byer, detected gravitational waves for a second time. The observation proves the system works and improves our understanding of the universe.
June 15, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A study under Bio-X affiliate Allan Reiss suggests that creative thinking not only can be improved by training, but also appears to correspond to a particular state of brain activity.
June 14, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford researchers under Bio-X affiliates Ash Alizadeh and Maximilian Diehn detect and sequence tumor DNA circulating in the blood of cancer patients, a revolutionary way to determine how a cancer is responding to chemotherapy.
June 13, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Peter Marinkovich and Paul Khavari have discovered a protein involved in psoriasis, a highly common skin disease, opening up new potentials for therapy.
June 8, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
When researchers under Bio-X affiliate Allan Reiss asked people to cooperate with a partner, then tracked the brain activity of both participants, they found that males and females had different patterns of shared brain activity.
June 7, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study from Bio-X affiliate Jason Andrews supports a greatly expanded treatment program for parasitic worm diseases that could save millions from disability and possible death in sub-Saharan Africa.
June 6, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford bioinformatician Nigam Shah and an international team asked some simple questions about health using the electronic medical records of 250 million patients.
June 3, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers including Bio-X affiliate John Ioannidis write that “reproducibility,” “replicability” and several other terms are not used consistently in scientific communication.
June 3, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study by researchers under Bio-X affiliates KC Huang and Stanley Qi has generated a new understanding of the fundamental gene networks that make bacteria so resilient to environmental stress and, increasingly, to antibacterial drugs.
June 2, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
Stanford computer scientist and Bio-X affiliate David Dill says Internet voting would be "a complete disaster."
June 2, 2016 - Stanford News
Bio-X Director Carla Shatz has won the Kavli Neuroscience Prize for her work understanding how the brain forms the proper connections. Affiliate Calvin Quate has won the Kavli Nanoscience Prize for his role in inventing the atomic force microscope.
June 2, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliate Gary Steinberg finds that people disabled by a stroke demonstrated substantial recovery long after the event when modified adult stem cells were injected into their brains.
June 2, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
Bio-X affiliate Sanjiva Lele finds that what matters is not how a single turbine will perform, but how a system — a farm — of hundreds or even thousands of turbines will perform over time.