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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FCC chairman visits Stanford for virtual reality lesson
June 22, 2016 - Stanford News
Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, stopped by Bio-X Affiliate Jeremy Bailenson's Virtual Human Interaction Lab last week to learn more about the pro-social applications of virtual reality. -
Clinical research’s flaws highlighted by Stanford’s John Ioannidis
June 21, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate John Ioannidis makes the case that despite its name, much research that aims to improve outcomes in the clinic falls short. -
Study reveals human genes, non-essential to us, that dengue, Zika, hepatitis C viruses depend on
June 20, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliates Jan Carette, Peter Sarnow, and Josh Elias are disabling mosquito-borne viruses — by selectively shutting down genes in the humans they infect. -
Stanford researchers find new way of making hydrogen fuel from water and improve grid-scale batteries
June 16, 2016 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Yi Cui and colleagues have developed new ways to improve hydrogen production and rechargeable zinc batteries. -
‘Guided chemotherapy missiles’ target cancer cells, sparing healthy ones
June 16, 2016 - Stanford News
Partially supported by a Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, Bio-X affiliates Jennifer Cochran, Michelle Monje, and Gerald Grant and Bio-X Bowes Fellow Shelley Ackerman find that latching chemotherapy drugs onto proteins could treat hard-to-reach tumors. -
Steady strides in multiple-sclerosis therapeutics research
June 16, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate May Han and her colleagues have pinpointed the molecular basis for a defective response to a first-line therapy among multiple sclerosis patients with gene variants. -
Stanford researchers celebrate a second sighting of gravitational waves
June 15, 2016 - Stanford News
An instrument built in part by Stanford researchers, including Bio-X affiliate Robert Byer, detected gravitational waves for a second time. The observation proves the system works and improves our understanding of the universe. -
Training creativity: To obtain a zany brain, don’t strain it. Unchain it.
June 15, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A study under Bio-X affiliate Allan Reiss suggests that creative thinking not only can be improved by training, but also appears to correspond to a particular state of brain activity. -
Tracking resistance mutations in lung cancer patients
June 14, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford researchers under Bio-X affiliates Ash Alizadeh and Maximilian Diehn detect and sequence tumor DNA circulating in the blood of cancer patients, a revolutionary way to determine how a cancer is responding to chemotherapy. -
Possible psoriasis drug target identified
June 13, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Peter Marinkovich and Paul Khavari have discovered a protein involved in psoriasis, a highly common skin disease, opening up new potentials for therapy. -
Study finds differences in male, female brain activity during cooperation
June 8, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
When researchers under Bio-X affiliate Allan Reiss asked people to cooperate with a partner, then tracked the brain activity of both participants, they found that males and females had different patterns of shared brain activity. -
Ramping up treatment of parasitic worm disease cost-effective
June 7, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study from Bio-X affiliate Jason Andrews supports a greatly expanded treatment program for parasitic worm diseases that could save millions from disability and possible death in sub-Saharan Africa. -
Gigantic datasets reveal unexpected insights into global medical treatments
June 6, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford bioinformatician Nigam Shah and an international team asked some simple questions about health using the electronic medical records of 250 million patients. -
Reproducible research: A hunt for the truth
June 3, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers including Bio-X affiliate John Ioannidis write that “reproducibility,” “replicability” and several other terms are not used consistently in scientific communication. -
Study provides insight into bacterial resilience, antibiotic targets
June 3, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study by researchers under Bio-X affiliates KC Huang and Stanley Qi has generated a new understanding of the fundamental gene networks that make bacteria so resilient to environmental stress and, increasingly, to antibacterial drugs. -
Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy
June 2, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
Stanford computer scientist and Bio-X affiliate David Dill says Internet voting would be "a complete disaster." -
Carla Shatz wins Kavli Prize
June 2, 2016 - Stanford News
Bio-X Director Carla Shatz has won the Kavli Neuroscience Prize for her work understanding how the brain forms the proper connections. Affiliate Calvin Quate has won the Kavli Nanoscience Prize for his role in inventing the atomic force microscope. -
Stem cells shown safe, beneficial for chronic stroke patients
June 2, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliate Gary Steinberg finds that people disabled by a stroke demonstrated substantial recovery long after the event when modified adult stem cells were injected into their brains. -
How modeling air turbulence can improve wind farm performance
June 2, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
Bio-X affiliate Sanjiva Lele finds that what matters is not how a single turbine will perform, but how a system — a farm — of hundreds or even thousands of turbines will perform over time. -
Artificial muscle fibers help keep muscle stem cells potent in lab
May 30, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Artificial collagen-based muscle fibers and a specialized broth developed under Bio-X affiliated faculty Thomas Rando and Sarah Heilshorn and Bio-X Bowes Fellow Rebecca DiMarco help muscle stem cells stay primed and ready for transplant. -
A tendency to gravitate toward similar mates does not seem to be changing the American gene pool
May 30, 2016 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Ben Domingue finds that while people show preferences for those with similar traits, there aren't similar changes in how genetics associate with spouses. -
Different brain cells process positive and negative experiences
May 26, 2016 - Stanford News
Combining cutting-edge techniques, Bio-X affiliates Karl Deisseroth, Liqun Luo, Jennifer McNab, and Casey Halpern and Bio-X Fellow Brian Hsueh have revealed that neurons in the prefrontal cortex are built to respond to reward or aversion. -
How we can help save the coastal marine ecosystem
May 24, 2016 - Stanford Engineering
Bio-X affiliates Alexandria Boehm and George Somero lead efforts to counteract the acidification and degradation of marine environments, especially along the northern Pacific Coast. -
New Stanford-developed tool allows easier study of blood cancers
May 24, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
The new method of implanting cells to create a human bone-like structure in mice allows investigators under Bio-X affiliate Ravindra Majeti to study a whole host of blood cancers and other diseases that they had trouble studying before. -
5 Questions: Desiree LaBeaud on the Zika virus
May 20, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Infectious disease expert and Bio-X affiliate Desiree LaBeaud discusses the local risks of contracting the Zika virus, what precautions residents can take and what travelers outside the United States should do to avoid infection with the virus. -
Tracking autism: a social neuroscientist’s hunt for autism biomarkers
May 19, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Karen Parker explores the biological underpinnings of how animals and people behave in social situations and is testing promising new medications to improve social functioning in people with autism. -
Less decline than expected in rate of brain, spine defects after folic acid fortification program
May 18, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Rates of neural tube birth defects were dropping before folic acid food fortification began in the 1990s, but the decline has slowed, according to Bio-X affiliate Gary Shaw. -
Small wonder: How nanotechnology could detect and treat cancer
May 17, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A growing field called nanotechnology is allowing Bio-X affiliates Sam Gambhir and Shan Wang to manipulate molecules and structures much smaller than a single cell to enhance our ability to see, monitor and destroy cancer cells in the body. -
Mom's voice activates many different regions in children's brains
May 16, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A far wider swath of brain areas is activated when children hear their mothers than when they hear other voices, and this brain response predicts their social communi-cation ability, a study under Bio-X affiliates Vinod Menon and Carl Feinstein finds. -
Stanford engineers design a home urine test that could scan for diseases
May 16, 2016 - Stanford News
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate Audrey Ellerbee Bowden, including 2014 USRP participant Matthew Millett, created a urinalysis system that uses a black box and smartphone camera to analyze a standard medical dipstick.