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.
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 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
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 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 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.
June 24, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The summer issue goes deep on the most superficial part of the body: skin, featuring work by numerous Bio-X affiliated faculty members.
June 23, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
New research under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Krishna Shenoy and Jaimie Henderson sheds light on how individual neurons control muscle movement in humans and could help in developing better brain-controlled prosthetic devices.
June 23, 2015 - Stanford Report
Stanford scientists under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Yi Cui have developed a cheap and efficient way to extract clean-burning hydrogen fuel from water perpetually.
June 22, 2015 - Stanford Report
A team under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Mark Schnitzer applied microscopy to a neuroscience theory: synapses storing memories should last as long as the memories.
June 18, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The beta adrenergic pathway is dysfunctional in dilated cardiomyopathy. Now, researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Joseph Wu have learned how a mutation that causes the disease affects the pathway, and how to mitigate its effects.
June 18, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The 8,500-year-old skeleton has been the subject of a dispute. Genetic analyses under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Carlos Bustamante suggest he is an ancestor of present-day Native Americans.
June 15, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Faculty, staff, residents and a student were honored for a variety of contributions to Stanford Medicine at the medical school’s 2015 commencement.
June 15, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Two genes that defend against many viral infections are nonfunctional in toothed whales, a new study under Bio-X faculty affiliate Gill Bejerano asserts.
June 11, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Under Bio-X affiliated faculty Michael Greicius, the view that discrete brain regions act in synchrony has been confirmed by a study showing coordination at the genetic level.
June 11, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Stefan Heller identified patterns of gene expression that may determine whether the ear’s inner pillar cells can give rise to new hair cells, which are key to hearing.
June 11, 2015
Bio-X affiliated faculty member and 2008 Bio-X Skippy Frank Fellow Adam de la Zerda has been selected for a four-year period of scholarship.
June 11, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
New research under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Aida Habtezion could lead to pharmacological treatments for chronic pancreatitis, a severe and currently untreatable disease.
June 10, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A data-mining study from Bio-X affiliated faculty member Nigam Shah and emeritus faculty John Cooke has found an association between the use of proton-pump inhibitors and the likelihood of incurring a heart attack down the road.
June 8, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty Manu Prakash and Travel Awardee Georgios Katsikis have developed a synchronous computer that operates using moving water droplets.
June 3, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Anthony Wagner and other scientists at Stanford have shown that, with a little bit of concentration, people can easily hide their memories from real-time brain scans with a machine-learning algorithm.
June 2, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X Director Carla Shatz has uncovered mechanisms that the brain uses to select which connections to strengthen or prune back as brain circuits form.
May 29, 2015 - Stanford Report
Stanford scientists under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Zhenan Bao and Yi Cui have created a new carbon material that significantly improves the performance of batteries and supercapacitors.
May 28, 2015 - Stanford Report
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jelena Vuckovic find that light can transmit more data while consuming far less power than electricity, and an engineering feat brings optical data transport closer to replacing wires.
May 28, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new study under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Allan Reiss is the first to directly implicate the cerebellum in the creative process.
May 28, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A team under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Peter Parham finds that part of a gene variant present in some wild African chimps is nearly identical to an analogous gene version found in HIV-infected humans who are slow to progress to full-blown AIDS.
May 27, 2015 - Stanford Report
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Mark Cutkosky have developed a material inspired by geckos', allowing robotic hands to grip nearly any object.
May 25, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Sergiu Pasca, Ben Barres, and John Huguenard, including Bio-X Bowes Fellow Steven Sloan, have figured out how to create spheres of neuronal cells resembling the cerebral cortex.
May 25, 2015 - Stanford Report
A team of scientists under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Mark Schnitzer has created a robot that expands the scope of biomedical research that can be carried out with a common laboratory organism – fruit flies.