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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Stanford Trauma Center saves boy's hand — and life
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. -
Financial fraud targeting older adults often involves appeals to emotions
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. -
Stanford Biodesign marks 15 years with new name, focus
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. -
Researchers release video game to help build a better test for tuberculosis
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. -
Researchers improve understanding of ‘Silly Putty’ protein that could improve bioengineered tissues
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. -
How nano materials can help improve everything from batteries to face masks
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. -
Age-dependent changes in pancreatic function related to diabetes identified
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. -
Maiden voyage of Stanford's humanoid robotic diver recovers treasures from King Louis XIV's wrecked flagship
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. -
Familial hypercholesterolemia: A genetic disease in need of early testing
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. -
Stanford engineers look inside nanoparticles to explore how their shape improves energy storage
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. -
Men’s typically taciturn Y chromosomes tell colorful tale of conquests, expansions
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. -
On a quest to develop artificial skin
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. -
Stanford engineers build a one-of-a-kind wind tunnel for birds that paves the way for better drones
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. -
Your one-stop shop for producing, crystallizing biomolecules
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. -
Keeping memories intact requires plenty of sleep
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. -
Stanford researchers create super stretchy, self-healing material that could lead to artificial muscle
April 18, 2016 - Stanford News
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Zhenan Bao and Christian Linder show how jolting this material with an electrical field causes it to twitch or pulse in a muscle-like fashion. -
Study ties recently discovered immune cell to disease
April 18, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Cornelia Weyand and Jorg Goronzy find that deficits in a recently discovered immune cell’s function may trigger a rare age-related auto-inflammatory disease — and perhaps far more common ones, too. -
Technique could ID patients who would suffer heart damage from chemo
April 18, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Joseph Wu, Joshua Knowles, Helen Blau, Daniel Bernstein, and Russ Altman are studying the phenomenon of doxorubicin, a chemotherapy drug, causing serious heart damage in some patients. -
Scientists suggest appealing to human psychology to create solutions to climate change
April 13, 2016 - Stanford News
Targeting psychology may promote environmentally friendly choices in individual practices and national policies, scientists including Bio-X affiliate Marcus Feldman say. -
Researchers' tool boosts article creation in local language Wikipedias
April 14, 2016 - Stanford News
Wikipedia exists in nearly 300 languages but many versions are small and incomplete. In one experiment, computer scientists under Bio-X affiliate Jurij Leskovec tripled article creation by recommending missing entries to editors. -
How magnetic nanoparticles can be used as medical sensors
April 12, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
A team of researchers under Bio-X affiliates Shan Wang, Samuel So, and Sam Gambhir tracks disease the way naturalists track animals in the wild. -
How miniaturized electronic devices can be used as medical therapeutics
April 12, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
Inspired by personal experience, Bio-X affiliate Ada Poon pioneers the development of ‘electroceuticals’ that can dispense treatments or monitor functions deep inside the body. -
Tracking pain: Health data provided by patients adds up to better care
April 8, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliate Sean Mackey and his colleagues created a computer-based system that uses streams of data from many patients to help physicians provide the best care for individuals. -
Y chromosome genes from Neanderthals likely extinct in modern men
April 7, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliate Carlos Bustamante finds that the Neanderthal counterpart of the human Y chromosome, or male sex chromosome, appears to have died out. Why this happened is up for debate. -
Changes in human reproduction raise legal, ethical issues
April 7, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The implications of emerging biotechnologies and what they mean for human reproduction and making babies raises legal, ethical and social issues, according to Bio-X affiliate Hank Greely. -
Populations of early human settlers grew like an 'invasive species'
April 5, 2016 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliate Elizabeth Hadly finds that when humans colonized South America, their populations grew like a typical invasive species – an initial explosive growth rapidly reached the environment's carrying capacity. -
And one for the road: Why a single shot may not (always) be enough to stave off shingles
April 4, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A new study led by Bio-X affiliate Jorg Goronzy provides evidence as to why a single shot is insufficient for roughly half of those vaccinated for shingles. -
$10 million grant funds infection-focused center
April 1, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The new center, directed by Bio-X affiliate Markus Covert with Bio-X affiliates KC Huang and Denise Monack as co-investigators, will explore intracellular and intercellular processes by which salmonella bacteria infect immune cells. -
Stanford’s Ronald Levy offers peek at future of cancer therapy
April 1, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Ronald Levy and his colleagues wondered what would happen if they combined immunotherapy and targeted therapies as an alternative to chemotherapy. -
Decoy drug could prevent cancer's spread
March 31, 2016 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Jennifer Cochran and Amato Giaccia, initially supported by a Bio-X Seed Grant, find that creating a molecular snapshot of the way proteins interact could help development of new cancer drugs.