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.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
April 26, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty PJ Utz, Purvesh Khatri, and Mark Davis, found that chemical adjuncts affixed to DNA-associated proteins become more diverse with age.
April 25, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A biobank released hundreds of thousands of anonymized medical records and genetic data. Stanford Bio-X affiliates Manuel Rivas, Erik Ingelsson, Euan Ashley, and Carlos Bustamante used it to track down new links between genetics and disease.
April 23, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In a proof-of-principle study, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member John Pringle used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system to modify genes in coral, suggesting that the tool could one day aid conservation efforts.
April 23, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Reward centers in the brains of children and teenagers who are obese and depressed show abnormalities that suggest the two conditions are neurologically connected, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Manpreet Singh has found.
April 20, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Physicians including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Ami Bhatt are engaged in a wide-ranging collaboration with the country’s ministry of health and doctors at major university-affiliated hospitals to improve several areas of cancer care.
April 19, 2018 - Stanford News
The discovery, from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Dick Zare, that water microdroplets can replace potentially toxic agents in the creation of gold nanoparticles and nanowires could help usher in a new era of “green chemistry.”
April 19, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A robotic assistant helped doctors, including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Brenda Porter and Gerald Grant, detect seizures deep in Gracin Hahne’s brain without having to open her skull or even shave her head.
April 19, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Eight years after being diagnosed with stage-4 lung cancer, whose treatment led to other health complications, Ginger Powell is cancer-free. Her doctors include Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Melanie Hayden Gephart.
April 18, 2018 - Stanford News
Millions are slowly losing their vision to diseases of the retina like age-related macular degeneration. A device from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Daniel Palanker, supported by a Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, may help some of them see again.
April 18, 2018 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members John Dabiri, Jeff Koseff, and Stephen Monsmith find that massive swarms of tiny oceanic organisms create enough turbulence when they migrate to redistribute ocean waters.
April 17, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and heart surgeon Joseph Woo discusses his award-winning research that examined the pros of cons of mechanical versus biological valve replacements.
April 16, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In mice, a fatal brainstem tumor was cleared by injecting it with engineered T cells that recognized the cancer and targeted it. The discovery, from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Michelle Monje and Crystal Mackall, is moving to human trials.
April 11, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Robert Negrin outlined the history of Stanford's bone marrow transplantation program and touched on research and other developments in the field over the past 30 years.
April 10, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Irv Weissman finds that when associated with tumors, immune cells known as macrophages can be both good and bad: they can help cancer spread and curb its growth.
April 9, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In an observational study of almost a half-million participants, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Erik Ingelsson discovered an association between high fitness levels and low heart disease, even among those at genetic risk.
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