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.
May 26, 2016 - Stanford News
Combining cutting-edge techniques, Bio-X affiliates Karl Deisseroth, Liqun Luo, Jennifer McNab, and Casey Halpern and Bio-X Fellow Brian Hsueh have revealed that neurons in the prefrontal cortex are built to respond to reward or aversion.
May 24, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
Bio-X affiliates Alexandria Boehm and George Somero lead efforts to counteract the acidification and degradation of marine environments, especially along the northern Pacific Coast.
May 24, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
The new method of implanting cells to create a human bone-like structure in mice allows investigators under Bio-X affiliate Ravindra Majeti to study a whole host of blood cancers and other diseases that they had trouble studying before.
May 20, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Infectious disease expert and Bio-X affiliate Desiree LaBeaud discusses the local risks of contracting the Zika virus, what precautions residents can take and what travelers outside the United States should do to avoid infection with the virus.
May 19, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Karen Parker explores the biological underpinnings of how animals and people behave in social situations and is testing promising new medications to improve social functioning in people with autism.
May 18, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Rates of neural tube birth defects were dropping before folic acid food fortification began in the 1990s, but the decline has slowed, according to Bio-X affiliate Gary Shaw.
May 17, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A growing field called nanotechnology is allowing Bio-X affiliates Sam Gambhir and Shan Wang to manipulate molecules and structures much smaller than a single cell to enhance our ability to see, monitor and destroy cancer cells in the body.
May 16, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A far wider swath of brain areas is activated when children hear their mothers than when they hear other voices, and this brain response predicts their social communi-cation ability, a study under Bio-X affiliates Vinod Menon and Carl Feinstein finds.
May 16, 2016 - Stanford News
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate Audrey Ellerbee Bowden, including 2014 USRP participant Matthew Millett, created a urinalysis system that uses a black box and smartphone camera to analyze a standard medical dipstick.
May 12, 2016 - Stanford News
In addition to restoring the original university plan and fostering multidisciplinary research, the President's proudest achievement was making Stanford affordable.
May 12, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
During last year’s Big Data in Biomedicine conference, Bio-X affiliate Rhiju Das shared details about an online game he co-created called Eterna.
May 12, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate and genome scientist Howard Chang outlines a clever new technique devised in his laboratory to determine the three-dimensional structure of RNA molecules.
May 11, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
Bio-X affiliate Adam de la Zerda discusses an advanced imaging technique that can help detect early-stage tumors and guide surgeons with precision.
May 11, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
Armed with new insights on traumatic brain injuries, bioengineer and Bio-X affiliate David Camarillo advocates rethinking the designs and standards of protective gear.
May 11, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
NASA recently produced a series of web videos that discuss its twins study and features Bio-X affiliate Michael Snyder, a principal investigator on one of the projects.
May 5, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
When Elijah Olivas' hand was severed in a car accident, dozens of experts from Stanford’s pediatric trauma team, including Bio-X affiliates Samuel Cheshier and Karl Sylvester, coordinated to perform 20 hours of life- and limb-saving surgery.
May 3, 2016 - Stanford News
Stanford researchers under Bio-X affiliate Ian Gotlib found that when an older person's emotions reach states of excitement and anger, they are more likely than young people to show interest in fraudulent appeals.
May 3, 2016 - Stanford News
The program, headed by Bio-X affiliate Paul Yock, has been renamed the Byers Center for Biodesign, and it’s now focusing on creating health-care technology that’s affordable.
May 2, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new version of the Eterna video game developed by Bio-X affiliates Rhiju Das and Purvesh Khatri could allow citizen scientists to design a molecule that would simplify the widespread use of a new TB test.
May 2, 2016 - Stanford News
Under Bio-X affiliates Ovijit Chaudhuri and Manish Butte, insights into the charact-eristics of collagen could help scientists design techniques for regenerating tissues.
April 28, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study led by Bio-X affiliates Seung Kim, Michael Snyder, and Howard Chang illustrates how pancreas function changes as we age and could point to new diabetes treatments.
April 28, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
By focusing on structures that are infinitesimally small, Bio-X affiliate Yi Cui, a prolific engineer, initiates a series of very big things.
April 27, 2016 - Stanford News
Built under Bio-X affiliate Oussama Khatib, the robot is powered by AI and haptic feedback systems, allowing human pilots to explore the depths of the oceans.
April 26, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
New research from Bio-X affiliate Joshua Knowles shows that familial hypercholesterolemia, a genetic condition that leads to high LDL cholesterol, is commonly diagnosed late, and patients often don’t get adequate treatment.
April 25, 2016 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Jennifer Dionne’s research group shows how phase-changing nanoparticles' shape and crystallinity affect their performance for battery applications.
April 25, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Carlos Bustamante's group teamed up with researchers at other institutions to produce a study of global genetic variation in the human Y chromosome.
April 22, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
A team of engineers under Bio-X affiliate Zhenan Bao explore how a new kind of wearable electronics could restore sensation to people with prosthetic limbs.
April 22, 2016 - Stanford News
Partially supported by a Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, Bio-X affiliate David Lentink plans to use a new wind tunnel to learn the magic of bird flight and apply it to better aerial robots.
April 21, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The Macromolecular Structure Knowledge Center helps researchers, including Bio-X affiliates Peter Kim and Chaitan Khosla, to test hundreds of different crystallization conditions or expertise in working with challenging molecules.
April 19, 2016 - Stanford News
To find out what time of day is best for learning, 2015 Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program participant Meagan Shinbashi spent late nights in the lab of Bio-X affiliate H. Craig Heller giving memory tests to mice.