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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No more burning batteries? Stanford scientists turn to AI to create safer lithium-ion batteries
December 15, 2016 - Stanford News
Researchers including Bio-X affiliate Yi Cui have identified 21 solid materials that could replace flammable liquid electrolytes in lithium-ion batteries. -
Research locates absence epilepsy seizure ‘choke point’ in brain
December 15, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford researchers under Bio-X affiliates John Huguenard and Karl Deisseroth used a rodent model to discover that shifting the firing pattern of a particular set of brain cells is all it takes to initiate, or to terminate, an absence seizure. -
Research transparency depends on sharing computational tools
December 15, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A team of scientists including Bio-X affiliate John Ioannidis has proposed a set of principles to improve the transparency and reproducibility of computational methods used in all areas of research. -
Smartphones could be game-changing tool for cardiovascular research
December 14, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliate Euan Ashley says that data from MyHeart Counts, a heart-health study in which participants transmit information through an app, shows smartphones' potential to transform the measurement of physical activity and fitness for research. -
DNA in wastewater could provide clues to help community health
December 12, 2016 - Stanford News
Supported by a Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, Bio-X affiliated faculty members Craig Criddle, Christopher Francis, Stephen Luby, Susan Holmes, and Justin Sonnenburg are developing methods for monitoring of DNA in wastewater, which could enable early detection of disease. -
Conjoined twins successfully separated at Packard Children’s Hospital
December 9, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Two-year-old twin sisters Erika and Eva Sandoval are recovering in the pediatric intensive care unit following their Dec. 6 separation surgery, which Bio-X affiliates H. Peter Lorenz and Louis Halamek both contributed to. -
Study reveals drug interactions that may reduce mortality in breast cancer patients
December 9, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Nigam Shah and Trevor Hastie found that certain drug combinations were associated with lower mortality rates among breast cancer patients. -
Who needs a body? Not these larvae, which are basically swimming heads
December 8, 2016 - Stanford News
Most animals we study have adult-like bodies early in their development. But researchers including Bio-X affiliate Christopher Lowe have found that certain marine worms live for months as little more than a head. -
Study establishes extent of the brain excited by specific dose of electricity
December 8, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Until the study from Bio-X affiliate Josef Parvizi no quantitative relationship between the level of electricity applied to the brain and the extent of neural activity generated has been plotted in humans. -
School kids can do safe, simple biological experiments over the internet
December 7, 2016 - Stanford News
Initially supported by a Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, Bio-X affiliates Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and Paulo Blikstein, with Bio-X Fellow Zahid Hossain, invented the remote-controlled Biology Cloud Lab, which enables creating experiments with single-celled organisms. -
Taking back control of an autonomous car affects human steering behavior, Stanford research shows
December 6, 2016 - Stanford News
Research from Bio-X affiliate Allison Okamura indicates that when human drivers retake control of an autonomous car, the transition could be problematic. -
Birds flying through laser light reveal faults in flight research
December 7, 2016 - Stanford News
Parrotlets flying through a field of lasers and microparticles helped test three popular models that predict the lift generated by flying animals. The work, under Bio-X affiliate David Lentink, could help develop better flying robots. -
Stanford engineers find that a new memory technology may be more energy efficient than previously thought
December 5, 2016 - Stanford News
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate H.-S. Philip Wong found an energy-saving surprise that could translate into longer battery life for next-generation mobile devices. -
Roeland Nusse wins $3 million Breakthrough Prize
December 4, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliate Roeland Nusse was honored for helping to decode how Wnt signaling proteins affect embryonic development, cancer and the activity of tissue-specific adult stem cells that repair damage after injury or disease. -
Better science communication is critical, The New Yorker’s Michael Specter argues
December 2, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Feature on Stanford Bio-X Seminar by Michael Specter, staff writer at The New Yorker. -
How prions help yeast feast on a wide range of sugars
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. -
Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time
December 1, 2016 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliates Tirin Moore and Kwabena Boahen, initially supported by the Bio-X NeuroVentures program, find that regions of the brain cycle in and out of sleep, even when awake. The cycles shift toward “awake” when parts of the brain focus on a task. -
New nontoxic hydrogels developed by Stanford engineers could aid in food production and other applications
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. -
Scientists call for end to devastating worm diseases
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. -
Researchers develop new compound to reduce tumor growth
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. -
Stem cells police themselves to reduce scarring, study finds
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. -
Giving thanks: A heart transplant recipient’s happy reunion
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. -
For platinum catalysts, a tiny squeeze gives a big boost in performance
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. -
Biomarker measurements may track effectiveness of Huntington’s therapy
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. -
CyberKnife used to treat rare condition in pediatric patient
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. -
Crowds, computation, and the creation of a globally-networked mind
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. -
$25 million awarded to center for study of regulatory science
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. -
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.