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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Prenatal steroids reduce risk of brain bleeding in preemies
March 24, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Steroid treatments intended to mature premature infants’ lungs before birth also protect them against brain hemorrhages after they are born, according to a California-wide study by Bio-X affiliate Henry Lee. -
Genetic research now integrated into MyHeart Counts app
March 24, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A phone app developed under Bio-X affiliate Euan Ashley to study heart disease risk and help ordinary people manage that risk has teamed up with 23andMe to add a genetics option. -
Protecting Coral Reefs with Bubbles
March 23, 2016 - Stanford Earth Matters
Bubbles could help protect coral reefs, oyster farms, and other coastal ecosystems from increasing ocean acidification, according to new research by Bio-X affiliate Rob Dunbar. -
Scientists pinpoint brain circuit for risk preference in rats
March 23, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Karl Deisseroth and Brian Knutson found that when rats were trained to choose between high- and low-risk options while a circuit in their brains was monitored and manipulated, a specific signal in that circuit determined their choice. -
Insights into human tears could lead to more comfortable contacts
March 22, 2016 - Stanford Report
Chemical engineers under Bio-X affiliate Gerald Fuller have discovered mechanical properties of the tear film on the eye's surface that can be used to manufacture contact lenses that more closely mimic the eye. -
Can bioengineering transform cells into drug factories?
March 21, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
An interdisciplinary research team under Bio-X affiliates Paul Wender, Christina Smolke, and Elizabeth Sattely shows how we just might be able to grow more plentiful and better medicines in the lab. -
The body's biggest defender may one day be smaller than you think
March 18, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
A group of researchers under Bio-X affiliates Sam Gambhir, Shan Wang, and Jianghong Rao shows how nanomedicine is changing the path of cancer diagnosis and treatment. -
Stanford scientists develop new technique for imaging cells and tissues under the skin
March 18, 2016 - Stanford Report
Partially supported by a Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, a team under Bio-X affiliate Adam de la Zerda, including Bio-X Bowes Fellow Orly Liba, developed the first technique for viewing cells and tissues in three dimensions under the skin. The work could improve diagnosis and treatment for some forms of cancer and blindness. -
Stanford scientists identify genetic switch for female sexual behavior
March 18, 2016 - Stanford Report
By studying the complex mating routine of African cichlid fish, a team of scientists under Bio-X affiliates Russell Fernald and Philippe Mourrain has keyed in on a single brain receptor in female fish that determines whether they successfully reproduce. -
Misleading p-values showing up more often in biomedical journal articles
March 15, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliate John Ioannidis finds in a review of p-values in the biomedical literature from 1990 to 2015 that these widely misunderstood statistics are being used increasingly, instead of better metrics of effect size or uncertainty. -
Q&A: Stanford water expert on lessons of Flint, Michigan, crisis
March 11, 2016 - Stanford Report
The lead in Flint, Michigan's water was due to a failure of government responsibility and a lack of water systems knowledge, says Bio-X affiliate Richard Luthy, but the health crisis can provide strategies for improving the nation's water infrastructure. -
The powerhouse behind Stanford’s global cancer effort
March 11, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliate Ami Bhatt is mobilizing Stanford experts to fight the growing threat of cancer in the developing world. -
Protein increases signals that protect cancer cells
March 10, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Dean Felsher and Irv Weissman, including 2014 USRP participant Rachel Do, have identified a link between the expression of a cancer-related gene and cell-surface molecules that protect tumors from the immune system. -
Stanford scientists make renewable plastic from carbon dioxide and plants
March 9, 2016 - Stanford Report
The new technology developed under Bio-X affiliate Matthew Kanan could provide a green alternative to petroleum-based plastic bottles and other polyester products. -
New insights into HIV's evolution may improve pharmaceutical testing
March 4, 2016 - Stanford Report
Stanford scientists under Bio-X affiliates Dmitri Petrov, Robert Shafer, and Susan Holmes, including Bio-X Travel Award recipient Alison Feder, found that effective treatment caused the HIV virus to evolve differently than less effective treatments. -
Curiosity leads to discovering the workings of a novel mode of insect flight
March 2, 2016 - Stanford Report
A chance observation of a water lily beetle inspired researchers under Bio-X affiliate Manu Prakash, including Travel Award recipient Haripriya Mukundarajan, to investigate the mysterious and sophisticated mode of flight it employs while flying over water. -
Vitamin D deficiency contributes to spread of breast cancer in mice
March 2, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Brian Feldman and Megan Albertelli have found evidence that vitamin D suppresses the expression of a gene known to accelerate the growth of breast cancer. -
Glucose-guzzling immune cells may drive coronary artery disease
February 29, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Cornelia Weyand and Jorg Goronzy find that excessive glucose uptake by inflammatory immune cells called macrophages may be behind coronary artery disease. -
Stanford engineers use rust to build a solar-powered battery
February 25, 2016 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliate Nick Melosh finds that heating simple metal oxides, like rust, could become the foundation for a solar technology that would make and store electricity by separating the hydrogen and oxygen atoms that make up water. -
'Squishiness' can indicate embryo viability, Stanford researchers find
February 24, 2016 - Stanford Report
Supported by a Bio-X Seed Grant, a team under Bio-X affiliates David Camarillo and Barry Behr has found that the squishiness of an hour-old fertilized egg can predict its viability, a metric that could lead to safer, more successful IVF pregnancies. -
5 Questions: Frank Longo on Alzheimer's, new neuroscience center
February 17, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In a recent interview, neurologist and Bio-X affiliate Frank Longo discussed Alzheimer’s disease, recent research breakthroughs and the new Stanford Neuroscience Health Center, which he co-leads. -
Researchers discover previously unknown bacterial species in dolphins
February 17, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The findings, from Bio-X affiliates David Relman and Susan Holmes, could help scientists detect potential health problems facing marine mammals due to climate change, as well as answer a mystery about how dolphins digest whole fish. -
Oxygen-starved oceans held back life's recovery after the Great Dying, Stanford researchers find
February 17, 2016 - Stanford Report
Under Bio-X affiliate Jonathan Payne, analysis of ancient seabed rocks from disparate locations reveal that life did not rebound until anoxia had fully ebbed. -
Journal publishes paper by video-gamers who derived scientific rules from Stanford online RNA game
February 16, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
With Bio-X affiliate Rhiju Das, video-gamers have co-authored a paper describing a new set of rules for determining the difficulty of designing RNA molcecule structures. -
Forget chocolates: Give your sweetheart mushrooms this Valentine's Day
February 12, 2016 - Stanford Report
A romantic evening of chocolate and wine would not be possible without an assist from fungi, says Bio-X affiliate Kabir Peay. In fact, truffles might be the ultimate romantic gift, as they exude pheromones that can attract female mammals. -
Stanford scientists celebrate technological advances that finally made gravitational wave detection possible
February 11, 2016 - Stanford Report
An international team of scientists including Bio-X affiliate Robert Byer has taken another step toward understanding the birth and evolution of the universe. -
Researchers create compound that combats drug-resistant malaria parasites, spares human cells
February 10, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate Matthew Bogyo have designed a compound that can target the malaria parasite without harming human tissue. -
Researchers find marker identifying most basic form of blood stem cell
February 10, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Nearly 30 years after the discovery of the hematopoietic stem cell, Stanford researchers under Bio-X affiliate Irv Weissman have found a marker that allows them to study the version of these stem cells that continues to replicate. -
Unfolding the Brain
February 8, 2016 - PhD Comics
Can the way the brain folds determine how you think? Bio-X affiliate Ellen Kuhl explains how mechanical forces affect the wrinkles in your brain. -
Scientists zero in on brain’s sigh-control center
February 8, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Mark Krasnow's team employed genetic, pharmacological and surgical techniques to map out a precise set of nerve circuits in the brain that are essential to the act of sighing.