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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Persis Drell named Stanford provost
November 7, 2016 - Stanford News
An accomplished academic leader and longtime member of the Stanford community, Drell will become the university’s chief academic officer and chief budgetary officer. She will assume the role Feb. 1. -
Q&A with Professor Susan Holmes: Statistics in the era of big data
November 7, 2016 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate and Clark Center building residnet Susan Holmes was working in data science before it was a field. Now her research visualizing and interpreting data is becoming increasingly important as more fields are producing vast amounts of data. -
Researchers take step toward gene therapy for sickle cell disease
November 7, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Using the CRISPR gene-editing technique in stem cells, Bio-X affiliates Matthew Porteus, Kenneth Weinberg, Anupama Narla, and Ravindra Majeti and 2015 USRP participant Joab Camarena repaired the gene that causes sickle cell disease. -
Exploring the promise and challenges of cancer immunotherapy
November 2, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Can the immune system be trained to protect against invaders from the inside, like cancer cells? That’s the key question behind the rapidly expanding field of cancer immunotherapy, Bio-X affiliate Crystal Mackall explains. -
Hedgehog pathway plays a role in colitis, new research suggests
November 2, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates James Chen, Maximilian Diehn, Michael Clarke, and Philip Beachy have found that manipulation of the Hedgehog pathway can have dramatic effects on mice with ulcerative colitis, a form of inflammatory bowel disease. -
Stanford researcher examines pulmonary hypertension — and its link to methamphetamine
November 2, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Patients with methamphetamine-induced pulmonary hypertension have provided one direction for the research of Bio-X affiliate Vinicio de Jesus Perez. -
Gene therapy for blistering skin disease appears to enhance healing in clinical trial
November 1, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Peter Marinkovich, Jean Tang, Peter Lorenz, and Paul Khavari's trial is the first time skin-based gene therapy has been shown as safe and effective in humans. -
Record set for capturing and storing solar energy in hydrogen fuel
October 31, 2016 - Stanford News
Stanford scientists including Bio-X affiliate James Harris used the electricity generated by high-efficiency solar cells to turn water into a chemical capable of storing 30 percent of the sun’s energy over long periods of time. -
Scientists battling deafness uncover clues inside inner ears of chickens
October 31, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate John Oghalai is working on understanding exactly how birds hear sounds differently than humans, a key area of research for studying deafness in humans, because birds have the ability to regrow lost hair cells in order to regain hearing loss. -
DNA damage response links short telomeres, heart disorder in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
October 31, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new study from Bio-X affiliates Helen Blau and Joe Wu and Seed Grant Collaborator Amato Giaccia shows that telomeres shorten without cell division in a mouse model. -
A look at scientists’ efforts to conquer a deadly brain tumor
October 31, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Michelle Monje and other scientists around the world are using the latest research methods to look for new approaches to diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma treatment. -
Mystery of tropical human parasite swimming solved by researchers
October 31, 2016 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Manu Prakash and Bio-X Bowes Fellow Deepak Krishnamurthy combined live observation, mathematical insights and robots to reveal the movement of parasitic larvae that cause schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease. -
Stanford biochemist Peter Kim leads the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub project on infectious disease
October 26, 2016 - Stanford News
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub will include two major research projects. One, focusing on infectious disease, will be led by Bio-X affiliate Peter S. Kim. -
Hormone that controls maturation of fat cells discovered
October 25, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Mature fat cells produce a hormone that regulates the differentiation of nearby stem cells in response to glucocorticoid hormones and high-fat diets, Bio-X affiliates Brian Feldman and Tracey McLaughlin have found. -
New tool to ID disease-causing genetic changes developed at Stanford
October 24, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
The team under Bio-X affiliate Gill Bejerano and 2010 Bio-X SIGF Aaron Wenger has gone another step toward ending diagnostic “near misses” by developing a more granular tool that automatically evaluates single-letter mistakes in the genetic code. -
Stanford researchers create new special-purpose computer that may someday save us billions
October 20, 2016 - Stanford News
Researchers including Bio-X affiliates Robert Byer and Hideo Mabuchi have made a new type of computer that can solve problems that challenge traditional computers. -
Perovskite solar cell could outperform existing commercial technologies
October 20, 2016 - Stanford News
Researchers including Bio-X affiliate Stacey Bent have created a new type of solar cell that converts sunlight to electricity at efficiencies similar to current technology but at much lower cost. -
Stanford researchers release virtual reality simulation that transports users to ocean of the future
October 18, 2016 - Stanford News
From Bio-X affiliate Jeremy Bailenson, free science education software holds promise for spreading awareness and inspiring action on the issue of ocean acidification. -
Micro-balloons designed by Stanford Bio-X researchers could reveal how the small intestine adapts to dietary load
October 18, 2016 - Stanford News
Supported by a Bio-X Seed Grant, Bio-X affiliated faculty Lucy O'Brien and Beth Pruitt find that a tiny micro-balloon that fits inside a fruit fly intestine could help to understand the forces or nutrients responsible for signaling the intestine to grow or shrink in response to food. -
Withholding amino acid depletes blood stem cells
October 18, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new study from Bio-X affiliate Hiromitsu Nakauchi shows that a diet deficient in valine effectively depleted the blood stem cells in mice and made it possible to perform a blood stem cell transplantation on them. -
Faulty DNA repair makes for old, crotchety immune cells; triggers inflammatory disease
October 18, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliates Connie Weyand, Jorg Goronzy, and Stuart Goodman have identified a failure in DNA repair that impels immune cells to become old and dangerous. -
Stanford researchers capture Central Asia's 'de-greening' over millions of years into a modern-day desert
October 13, 2016 - Stanford News
The first large-scale map of rainfall declines could help researchers under Bio-X affiliate Page Chamberlain understand profound regional and global climate transformation. -
Apply for the 2017 Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program!
October 13, 2016
The 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 2017. -
Common prostate cancer treatment linked to later dementia
October 13, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new retrospective study of the health records of prostate cancer patients, from Bio-X affiliates Nigam Shah and Nicholas Leeper, supports an association between androgen deprivation therapy and future risk of dementia. -
New technique offers glimpse at human evolution in action
October 13, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A international team led by Bio-X affiliate Jonathan Pritchard used a new analytic technique to map recent evolution. -
Stanford researchers find that the future of Antarctic marine protected areas is at risk
October 13, 2016 - Stanford News
A study from Bio-X affiliates Larry Crowder and Rob Dunbar shows that efforts to adopt protected areas in the Southern Ocean are thwarted by politics and fishing interests. -
Scientists develop inflammation test to predict cardiovascular disease
October 13, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
From Bio-X affiliates Holden Maecker, Joseph Wu, Mark Davis, and Francois Haddad, an assessment blending several measures of immune-cell responsiveness predicted cardiovascular problems in individuals who likely would have slipped under the radar. -
Stanford part of Bay Area Biohub collaboration for health research
September 21, 2016 - Stanford News
Stanford faculty will be part of a new collaboration created by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, co-led by Bio-X affiliate Steve Quake, to study biotechnology together with UC Berkeley and UCSF. -
Stanford bioengineer Manu Prakash wins prestigious MacArthur grant
September 21, 2016 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Manu Prakash, as assistant professor of bioengineering, has been awarded a “genius grant” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. -
Carla Shatz wins the 2016 Antonio Champalimaud Vision Award!
September 6, 2016
Bio-X Director Carla Shatz has won the the 2016 António Champalimaud Vision Award.