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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'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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Neurobiologist Carla Shatz on learning and the value of collaboration
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. -
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. -
RNA editing: Many mysteries remain
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. -
Individuals' medical histories predicted by their noncoding genomes
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. -
Human culture, not smarts, may have overwhelmed Neanderthals
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. -
Scientists uncover neural pathway responsible for opioid withdrawal
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. -
Found: A molecule mediating memory meltdown in aging immune systems
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. -
Fast, accurate cystic fibrosis test developed at Stanford
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. -
The latest on the pregnancy risks for women with lupus
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. -
Cautious green light for CRISPR use in embryos in the U.K.; Stanford’s Hank Greely weighs in
February 1, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Hank Greely gives his take on U.K. approval to apply CRISPR on human embryos. -
Growing resistance to vital HIV drug raises concern
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. -
Stanford engineers have good news for Stephen Colbert: It is plausible to climb like Spider-Man
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. -
Wearable device detects, analyzes real-time changes in chemical composition of sweat
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. -
A group of scholars look to early 20th century radio technology to help improve Internet security
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. -
Submit a Letter of Intent for the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Seed Grants!
January 27, 2016
Stanford Bio-X is now accepting Letters of Intent for the 8th Round of the Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grants. -
When Lucy Shapiro discovered her true passion
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. -
How Irv Weissman learned to figure things out
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. -
Teen awaiting heart-lung transplant first to undergo novel therapy
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. -
Chemotherapy may benefit subgroup of stage-2 colon cancer patients
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. -
Low-fiber diet may cause irreversible depletion of gut bacteria over generations
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.