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.
August 20, 2015 - Stanford Report
Feature on Stanford Biodesign Program, housed in the Clark Center, headed by Bio-X affiliate Paul Yock: a program that blends India’s frugal mindset with Stanford’s entrepreneurial atmosphere generates low-cost solutions to high-tech medical needs.
August 20, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Scientists under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Axel Brunger, Thomas Südhof, and Bill Weis found that when two protein structures in the brain join up, they trigger a gunshot-like release of neurotransmitters from one neuron to another.
August 20, 2015 - Stanford Report
Psychologists under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Brian Knutson found that applicants for microloans are more likely to win approval if the photograph they send along with the application evokes a positive emotional response.
August 20, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Peter Parham finds an unusual mutation in an immune system gene switches a receptor from one target molecule to another – the first known example of such a change, which likely leads to safer pregnancies.
August 18, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Vinod Menon finds that gray matter volume and brain region connections forecast 8-year-olds’ acquisition of math skills better than tests.
August 17, 2015 - Stanford Report
The device from Bio-X affiliates Karl Deisseroth, Scott Delp, and Ada Poon, Bio-X Fellow Kate Montgomery, and Travel Awardee Logan Grosenick stimulates optogenetically.
August 17, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A specific pattern of high bacterial diversity in the vagina during pregnancy increases a woman’s risk of giving birth prematurely, a new study by Bio-X affiliated faculty members David Relman, David Stevenson, Gary Shaw, and Susan Holmes finds.
August 13, 2015 - Stanford Report
It typically takes a year to produce hydrocodone from plants, but Bio-X affiliated faculty member Christina Smolke's team has genetically modified yeast to make it in just a few days, which could improve access to medicines in impoverished nations.
August 12, 2015 - Stanford Report
GCEP has awarded Stanford and 4 other universities funding to develop energy technologies. Funded Stanford faculty include Bio-X affiliates Yi Cui and Stacey Bent.
August 11, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The technique from Bio-X affiliates Joe Wu, Ron Davis, and Euan Ashley and 2007 Bio-X Bowes Fellow Kitchener Wilson could enable diagnosis of genetic heart diseases.
August 10, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Research by Bio-X affiliated faculty members Paul Khavari and Michael Snyder finds that mutations in immune cells prevented their natural death in roughly half of the cell samples from cancer patients, suggesting drug targets for the disease.
August 6, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Updates to the MyHeart Counts app, developed by Bio-X affiliated faculty members Euan Ashley and Michael McConnell, include more feedback from other users to help participants improve their own heart health and further contribute to the study.
August 5, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Roeland Nusse have found a previously unknown population of cells in mice that function as liver stem cells. The finding could aid drug testing and increase understanding of liver biology and disease.
August 3, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliates Eric Kool and Ash Alizadeh have developed a catalyst that saves RNA, which could lead to better patient outcomes when pulling genetic information.
July 31, 2015 - Stanford Report
Years of work under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Krishna Shenoy have yielded a technique that continuously corrects brain readings to give people with spinal cord injuries a more precise way to tap out commands by using a thought-controlled cursor.
July 29, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new technology developed under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Howard Chang reveals that immune system genes switch on and off differently in women and men, and the source of that variation is not primarily in the DNA.
July 24, 2015 - Stanford Report
During a visit to Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jeremy Bailenson's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell learned how virtual experiences could improve training and officiating, and also teach players empathy.
July 22, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
High levels of diversity among natural killer cells may predispose people to HIV infection, says a study by Bio-X affiliated faculty Catherine Blish and Susan Holmes and 2014 Bio-X SIGF Fellow Julia Fukuyama and 2013 Travel Awardee Dara Strauss-Albee.
July 22, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study by Bio-X affiliated faculty members Patricia Nguyen, Joseph Wu, Russ Altman, and Dominik Fleischmann addresses rising public health concerns about possible links between low-dose radiation and cancer.
July 22, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Karen Parker, Antonio Hardan, and Joseph Garner, partially supported by the Bio-X NeuroVentures program, finds that in children with autism, low levels of the hormone vasopressin predict a social deficit.
July 21, 2015 - Stanford Report
Stanford chemist and Bio-X affiliated faculty member W.E. Moerner suggests that the world's largest cities should take steps to reduce the impacts of global warming.
July 20, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A team under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Ash Alizadeh, Sylvia Plevritis, Maximilian Diehn, and Robert West finds that linking gene expression patterns and immune system response to patient survival rates illuminates broad prognostic correlations.
July 20, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Scientists under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Michael Zeineh and Brian Rutt have located inflamed, iron-containing scavenger cells in a memory-formation structure in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients who died.
July 20, 2015 - Stanford Report
Evidence suggests that concussions in football are caused by the sudden rotation of the skull. Bio-X affiliated faculty member David Camarillo's lab, including Bio-X Bowes Fellow Lyndia Wu, suggests that current tests don't account for these movements.
July 13, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Two antioxidant supplements were found in research by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Joseph Garner to be effective in treating a skin-picking disorder in mice, suggesting they may be useful in people with the condition.
July 1, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Research by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Lawrence Steinman suggests that a swine flu vaccine may have caused rare cases of narcolepsy by stimulating antibodies to attack brain cells that help regulate sleep.
June 30, 2015 - Stanford Report
A study co-authored by Bio-X affiliated faculty member James Gross finds that walking in nature yields measurable mental benefits and may reduce risk of depression.
June 30, 2015 - Stanford Report
Lovebirds turn their heads at record speeds to maneuver. Bio-X affiliated faculty member David Lentink says this strategy could be applied to drone cameras.
June 29, 2015
Bio-X Director Carla Shatz delivers a TEDxStanford talk posing the question of whether we will one day soon be able to make an old brain young.
June 25, 2015 - Stanford Report
Crystalline semiconductors like silicon can catch photons and convert their energy into electron flows. New research under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Xiaolin Zheng shows a little stretching could give one of silicon's lesser-known cousins its own place.