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.
February 8, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Carla Shatz, Director of Stanford Bio-X, is carrying out research that could help adults learn new skills as easily as children do. Shatz says the collaborative environment at Stanford that makes her work possible.
February 4, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate Gill Bejerano have found that analyzing mutations in regions of the genome that control genes can predict medical conditions such as hypertension, narcolepsy and heart problems.
February 4, 2016 - Stanford Report
Stanford researchers under Bio-X affiliate Marcus Feldman, armed with mathematical models, suggest that our higher level of cultural organization may have allowed us to eventually overwhelm the Neanderthals.
February 4, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
For decades, no one had a great way to examine post-transcriptional changes to RNA, much less understand what role they play in cellular processes. Bio-X affiliate Jin Billy Li’s lab is working to unravel RNA’s remaining secrets.
February 3, 2016 - Stanford Report
Stanford researchers under Bio-X affiliate Xiaoke Chen manipulated the brains of morphine-addicted mice and allowed them to overcome withdrawal symptoms. This could offer a new approach to quieting symptoms that often lead to recurring drug use.
February 2, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Research under Bio-X affiliate Jorg Goronzy has identified a surface protein that could explain why people's immune systems decline as they age.
February 1, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Julia Simard has published a descriptive study to clarify the pregnancy risks for women who are diagnosed, and may be diagnosed, with lupus.
February 1, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Hank Greely gives his take on U.K. approval to apply CRISPR on human embryos.
February 1, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The new technique, described in a paper co-authored by Bio-X affiliate Ron Davis will allow for more comprehensive newborn screening, while also cutting the time and cost needed for testing.
January 28, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A study under Bio-X affiliate Robert Shafer finds that HIV resistance to the antiviral tenofovir, one of the mainstays of HIV treatment and prevention, is increasingly common following therapy.
January 28, 2016 - Stanford Report
By using a novel controllable adhesive system, engineers under Bio-X affiliate Mark Cutkosky shows that a person can scale a glass wall just like Spidey.
January 27, 2016
Stanford Bio-X is now accepting Letters of Intent for the 8th Round of the Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grants.
January 27, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate Ron Davis find that complementary electronic technologies underlie a newly developed, wearable sensor to monitor the body.
January 27, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
A new study under Bio-X affiliate Jelena Vuckovic shows how harnessing the quantum properties of light can create a transmission technology impervious to eavesdropping.
January 22, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
After a career packed with discoveries, Bio-X affiliate Lucy Shapiro has turned her attention to the threat of emerging infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance.
January 22, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliate Irving Weissman had an unconventional start in science. The son of a hardware store operator and grandson of a fur trader, he learned lifelong lessons in research at the McLaughlin Research Institute in Montana.
January 21, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Oswaldo Jimenez's doctors, including Bio-X affiliate Jeffrey Feinstein, needed to perform what is referred to as a “bridge-to-transplant” solution, one that would sustain his organs until a transplant could be done.
January 20, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Research under Bio-X affiliates Michael Clarke and Matt van de Rijn find that a small subset of colon cancers lacks the CDX2 protein — a hallmark of colon tissue maturation.
January 13, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliate Justin Sonnenburg found that when mice with gut bacteria from a human ate a low-fiber diet, the diversity of their intestinal inhabitants plummeted.
January 11, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Lloyd Minor, Dean of the School of Medicine and Bio-X Executive Committee Member, hopes leaders will set their sights higher for the health of the American people.
January 11, 2016 - Stanford Report
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Zhenan Bao and Yi Cui have invented a lithium-ion battery that turns on and off depending on the temperature, which could prevent battery fires that have plagued laptops, hoverboards and other electronic devices.
January 8, 2016
The Stanford Bio-X Leadership Council is pleased to announce the 13th annual competition for Stanford Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowships.
January 7, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study under Bio-X affiliates David Kingsley and Gill Bejerano of the tiny stickleback fish led to the identification of a genomic region possibly linked to modifications in human toes and feet that enable upright walking.
January 7, 2016 - Stanford Report
Findings from Bio-X affiliate Brian Knutson could help understand and treat gambling or addiction disorders.
January 6, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new technique developed under Bio-X affiliated faculty Joseph Garner helps preserve valuable research mice from a condition that is the most common, preventable reason for euthanasia.
January 5, 2016 - Stanford Report
Scientists under Bio-X affiliate Russell Fernald show how the selective expression of genes through epigenetics can regulate the social status of African cichlid fish.
December 23, 2015 - Stanford Report
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Hongjie Dai and Zhen Cheng, including 2013 Mona M. Burgess SIGF and Stanford Bio-X Fellow Bo Zhang, invented a long wavelength near-infrared fluorescent molecule to improve the imaging depth of glowing dyes.
December 18, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study by Bio-X affiliates Gary Steinberg, John Huguenard, and Stephen Smith shows that Zolpidem (trade name Ambien) increased the rate at which mice that had strokes recovered their pre-stroke sensory acuity and motor coordination.
December 17, 2015 - Stanford Report
The United States needs better oversight of risky biological research, according to Stanford scholars including Bio-X affiliate David Relman.
December 16, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Manish Butte and Olav Solgaard, partially supported by a Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, have developed a way to use atomic force microscopy to measure cells, which could pave the way for better understanding immune disorders and cancer.