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.
October 12, 2018 - Stanford News
A new computer model from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Ellen Kuhl maps how misshapen proteins associated with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and ALS spread throughout the brain. The work, supported by a Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, could aid in finding ways to diagnose and treat these neurodegenerative disorders.
November 5, 2018
The Stanford Bio-X Program and the Novo Nordisk Foundation would like to announce our call for applications for the Visiting Scholar or Postdoc Fellowships @ Stanford Bio-X!
October 10, 2018
The Stanford 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 2018.
July 26, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new genetic screen may be able to predict low bone-mineral density, osteoporosis and fracture risk prior to clinical symptoms, according to a retrospective study of nearly 400,000 people by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Stuart Kim.
July 26, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A molecule called propionate inhibits the growth of Salmonella in mice and may be a promising treatment, say Stanford Bio-X affiliates Denise Monack, José Vilches-Moure, Justin Sonnenburg, Ami Bhatt, and KC Huang, and Travel Awardee Amanda Jacobson.
July 25, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Lisa Giocomo and Surya Ganguli shows that how our brains blend cues to estimate our speed and position in space depends on where we are and how fast we seem to be moving.
July 24, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Mike Snyder and Tracey McLaughlin in which blood sugar levels were continuously monitored reveals that even people who think they’re “healthy” should pay attention to what they eat.
July 23, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Olivia Martinez and Mark Davis have joined forces to learn how immune cells in some kidney transplant patients fight a common virus. The work could lead to a test to predict who is at risk and/or develop treatments.
July 19, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
What if you could stitch together single cells any way you wanted to? Research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and Bio-X Fellow David Glass shows that potential medical and even industrial applications abound.
July 18, 2018 - Stanford Engineering
A thin membrane around some bacterial cell walls has structural properties critical for survival, find Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty KC Huang and Julie Theriot, Bio-X Fellow Amanda Miguel, and Travel Awardee Gabriel Billings. Targeting it could treat infections.
July 17, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Diagnosing rare genetic diseases requires slow, educated guesswork. Stanford Bio-X affiliates Gill Bejerano and Jon Bernstein, Bio-X Fellows Johannes Birgmeier and Aaron Wenger, and Bio-X USRP participant Cole Deisseroth want to automate the process.
May 25, 2018 - Stanford News
An outbreak of Nipah in South India has renewed interest in the virus, which has a high mortality rate and no vaccine or cure. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Stephen Luby explains risk factors and potential interventions.
May 21, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Mimicking a stem cells' natural environment in the laboratory is impossible without recent bioengineering advances. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Helen Blau and Sarah Heilshorn, as well as Travel Award recipient Chris Madl, discuss the field.
May 14, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
With a radioactive tracer, scientists can use a PET scan to quickly tell whether a cancer immunotherapy will be effective, in work from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Sam Gambhir, Ronald Levy, and Michelle James, and Stanford Bio-X Fellow Aaron Mayer.
May 11, 2018 - Stanford News
A new wastewater treatment plant will be the largest to test work from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Craig Criddle that significantly reduces the cost of cleaning water.
May 10, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Euan Ashley and Jonathan Chen sifted through more than a million texts to find out if clinicians inadvertently endorse brand-name medications over less expensive generic alternatives.
May 9, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Justin Sonnenburg finds that gut bacteria able to digest seaweed can outcompete native bacteria in the large intestine of nori-fed mice. Favoring one species over others in the gut could help advance precision health.
May 8, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Nigam Shah discusses a new study in which a machine learning system predicts patient outcomes, and he outlines the implications for artificial intelligence in medicine.
May 8, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A new gene-editing technology from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Lars Steinmetz and Ron Davis and Stanford Bio-X USRP participants Julia Schulz and Tucker Burnett enables scientists to make and track thousands of edits at once.
May 7, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Stephen Galli is working to learn how Exposure to 'third-hand smoke' — the chemicals left behind on surfaces after smoke has dissipated — increases the severity of asthma symptoms in mice.
May 4, 2018 - Stanford News
Artificial intelligence drew much inspiration from the human brain but went in its own direction. Now, AI has come full circle and is helping neuroscientists like Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Daniel Yamins better understand how our brains work.
May 3, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Howard Chang and Christina Curtis solve a mystery: how DNA mutations can increase expression of Myc, a cancer-associated gene.
May 3, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
When Stanford Bio-X founding faculty member James Spudich was diagnosed with lung cancer, researchers had a rare, and unexpected, opportunity to study healthy and diseased human tissue at an unprecedented level of detail. Numerous other Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members, including Stanford Bio-X founding faculty member Steve Chu, are contributing.
May 2, 2018 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliates Mark Schnitzer and Jun Ding set out to test a seminal theory of Parkinson’s disease and several related conditions. What they found is more complex than anyone had imagined.
May 2, 2018 - Stanford News
With computer simulations and experiments, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Ron Dror revealed new information on a molecular pathway that enables roughly half of all medications to achieve their desired effects but also causes many side effects.
May 2, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Andrew Huberman found that pinpoint stimulation of a cluster of nerve cells in mice's brains encouraged timid responses to a perceived threat, but stimulation of an adjacent cluster induced boldness and courage.
May 2, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Ask a child with asthma how easily they can breathe, and you won’t get an objective answer. But a team of researchers including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member David Cornfield is developing a way to predict asthma attacks in advance.
May 2, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Low levels of vasopressin in CSF are linked to low social ability in monkeys and to autism in children, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Karen Parker, Joseph Garner, and Antonio Hardan found, in work partly supported by Bio-X NeuroVentures.
May 1, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The material developed by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Annelise Barron could be used to synthesize a film that coats the inner surface of lungs, possibly leading to better, cheaper treatments for acute lung injury in humans.
April 30, 2018 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Yi Cui has developed a manganese-hydrogen battery that could fill a missing piece in the nation’s energy puzzle by storing wind and solar energy, lessening the need to burn carbon-emitting fossil fuels.
April 30, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
In a JAMA opinion piece, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Gary Peltz and Tom Sudhof argue for policymakers and health leaders to combat opioid addictions early.
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