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.
October 14, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Although the research, under Bio-X affiliated faculty Luis de Lecea, Irv Weissman, and H. Craig Heller, was done in mice, the findings have implications for bone marrow transplants, more properly called hematopoietic stem cell transplants, in humans.
October 12, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Congenital heart defects are correlated with moderate elevation of the mother’s blood sugar during pregnancy, even if she’s not diabetic, according to a new study under Bio-X affiliated faculty Gary Shaw.
October 9, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The grant is the 3rd from the National Cancer Institute to fund the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence in Translational Diagnostics, directed by Bio-X affiliate Sam Gambhir and supports research by faculty including Bio-X affiliate Shan Wang.
October 6, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The awards are designed to encourage creative research and improvements in health care. Stanford faculty who received awards include Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Tony Wyss-Coray, Sanjay Basu, Jessica Feldman, Daniel Jarosz, and Manu Prakash.
October 1, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new study in mice, under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Jun Ding and Lu Chen, shows that restoring the synthesis of a key brain chemical tied to inhibiting addictive behavior may help prevent alcohol cravings following binge drinking.
September 30, 2015 - Stanford Report
Partially supported by a Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, Bio-X affiliated faculty Beth Pruitt and her team work to get stem cells to behave like normal heart cells, which requires tension and a specific shape.
September 29, 2015 - Stanford Report
An ongoing study by Stanford engineers including Bio-X affiliate Craig Criddle, in collaboration with researchers in China, shows that common mealworms can safely biodegrade various types of plastic.
September 28, 2015 - Stanford Report
Researchers in Bio-X affiliate Jan Skotheim's lab have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that controls how large cells grow.
September 25, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The funding from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation supports research to find cures and better treatments for pediatric cancers. Stanford faculty who will receive funding include Bio-X affiliated faculty Kathleen Sakamoto and Eric Sweet-Cordero.
September 23, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Matthew Bogyo, Justin Sonnenburg, and Niaz Banaei finds that a drug that blocks the intestinal pathogen without killing resident, beneficial microbes may prove superior to antibiotics.
September 23, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliate Michael Frank says that children learn words best when they are used in a context that's understandable. Using words in fun, coherent activities is more important than just talking more to children.
September 21, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliated faculty members Julien Sage, Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, and Laura Attardi find that two drugs that affect the structure and function of DNA have been found to block the growth of pancreatic tumor cells in mice.
September 21, 2015 - Stanford Report
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty member James Swartz stripped a virus of its infectious machinery and turned its benign core into a delivery vehicle that can target sick cells while leaving healthy tissue alone.
September 17, 2015 - Stanford Report
A new study under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Bala Rajaratnam reveals that the evidence for a recent pause in the rate of global warming lacks a sound statistical basis. The finding should improve confidence in climate model projections.
September 16, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty Pilar Ruiz-Lozano, Manish Butte, Phillip Yang, and Daniel Bernstein, partially supported by a Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, have discovered that a particular protein, Fstl1, plays a key role in regenerating dead heart-muscle cells.
September 16, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A national program to diagnose difficult-to-diagnose patients is taking root at Stanford under the guidance of heart specialist and Bio-X affiliated faculty member Euan Ashley.
September 16, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Safe sunlight exposure under canopies that remove harmful rays is a low-cost, effective way to give phototherapy to jaundiced infants in impoverished settings, according to a new study under Bio-X affiliate David Stevenson.
September 16, 2015 - Stanford Report
Research by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Richard Luthy shows that coordinated work with local and federal agencies could provide a template for capture and reuse of stormwater in dry regions such as the American West.
September 15, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jason Andrews are urging WHO to recommend broader and more frequent treatment of parasitic-worm diseases.
September 14, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Paul Bollyky finds a compound that blocks the synthesis of hyaluronan, a substance generally found in in all body tissue, protected mice from getting Type 1 diabetes.
September 14, 2015 - Stanford Report
RNA polymerase II makes life possible by expressing genes. Now, a Stanford team under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Steven Block and Roger Kornberg, including Bio-X Travel Awardee Furqan Fazal, has observed it at work in real time.
September 11, 2015 - Stanford Report
In a study under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Brian Knutson, brain scans reveal that negative emotional responses can powerfully drive decisions to protect environmental resources.
September 10, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Elizabeth Sattely and Travel Award recipient Warren Lau produced a common cancer drug in a common laboratory plant.
September 10, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Joanna Wysocka of species-specific regulation of gene expression in chimps and humans has identified regions important in human facial development and variation.
September 8, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Vinod Menon finds that individualized math lessons improved kids’ arithmetic performance and made them feel more comfortable with the subject.
September 4, 2015 - Stanford Report
Led by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Fei-Fei Li, the new SAIL-Toyota Center for AI Research will focus on teaching computers to see and make critical decisions about how to interact with the world.
September 3, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Vinod Menon of about 800 children with autism found gender differences in a core feature of the disorder, as well as in the youngsters’ brain structures.
August 31, 2015 - Stanford Report
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates David Camarillo and Calvin Kuo, including 2014 Bio-X Bowes Fellow Lyndia Wu and 2013 Bio-X Honorary Fellow Fidel Hernandez, have found that many commercially available sensors to gather skull motion data are error-prone.
August 28, 2015 - Stanford Report
By solving how whooper swans keep their heads steady during flight, engineers under Bio-X affiliate David Lentink, partially supported by a Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, have developed a camera suspension system that could help drones produce crisper video.
August 26, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Research under Bio-X affiliate Aaron Gitler finds that a mutation linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis interferes with the transport of proteins in and out of a cell’s nucleus. Targeting this pathway may one day help patients with neurodegenerative disease.