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.
September 24, 2021 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and Clark Center building resident faculty Dr. Karl Deisseroth's discoveries regarding microbial light-activated molecules led to his development of a way to manipulate selected neurons in living animals to observe changes in their behavior.
May 13, 2019 - Stanford News
Researchers don’t know how viruses like those that cause chicken pox infect cells. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Ann Arvin and Wah Chiu, supported by a Bio-X Seed Grant, are using a super-cold form of electron microscopy to find out.
May 13, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliates Tony Wyss-Coray, Eugene Butcher, Stephen Quake, and Marion Buckwalter, Bio-X Fellow Andrew Yang, and Bio-X USRP participant Taylor Merkel found that impeding a specific protein enabled old mice to perform better on memory tests.
May 6, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Anca Pasca, Sergiu Pasca, and Theo Palmer find that low oxygen levels during brain development may cause particular cells to differentiate too soon. Their work is featured on the May 2019 cover of Nature Medicine.
May 6, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliates Aaron Newman, Ash Alizadeh, Maximilian Diehn and Andrew Gentles, partly supported by a Bio-X Seed Grant, have developed a computational platform for analyzing the molecular behavior of individual cells in tissue samples.
May 1, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In a study of 30 children with autism, Stanford Bio-X affiliates Karen Parker, Antonio Hardan, and Joseph Garner found that vasopressin improved social skills more than a placebo, suggesting that the hormone may treat core features of the disorder.
April 30, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Laramie Duncan explains that genome-wide association studies of psychiatric disorders are far more reliable than older, smaller genetic studies.
April 29, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Ron Davis and James Harris devised a blood-based test that accurately identified people with chronic fatigue syndrome, a new study reports.
April 26, 2019 - Stanford News
So far scientists haven’t managed to make a vaccine that protects against all strains of flu. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Peter Kim has developed new approach could end that ritual and protect against deadly pandemic flu.
April 19, 2019 - Stanford News
A blood test to detect colorectal cancer being developed by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Shan Wang could help improve screening rates.
April 23, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Purvesh Khatri, Niaz Banaei, and Juan Santiago are working toward a new type of tuberculosis diagnostic that utilizes blood samples.
April 22, 2019 - Stanford News
No one knows exactly how flatworms can rebuild their entire bodies from the tiniest sliver. Supported by a Stanford Bio-X Seed Grant, affiliated faculty Bo Wang, Nicholas Melosh, and Andrew Fire are building new tools to study the worms’ regeneration.
April 17, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Paul Bollyky, Bio-X Fellow Jolien Sweere, and Undergraduate Summer Research Program participant Michelle have shown that some viruses sequester antibiotics in CF patients' lungs, possibly helping bacterial infections.
March 25, 2019 - Stanford News
Three high schoolers working under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Tsachy Weissman found that, when file size is restricted, humans are better at representing images than traditional algorithms.
March 25, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford researchers including Bio-X affiliate Fei-Fei Li are tackling the problem of post-intensive care syndrome with artificial intelligence technology that detects patient mobility.
March 20, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In 2014, after months of not getting expected results, Stanford Bio-X founding member, first Director, and affiliated faculty James Spudich fell asleep and had a dream that would change the thinking about what causes a common and often lethal heart defect.
March 18, 2019 - Stanford News
Splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen presents an alternative to fossil fuels, but purified water is a precious resource. A team under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Hongjie Dai has now developed a way to harness seawater for chemical energy.
March 18, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Scientists studying cell death, including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Jan Carette and Scott Dixon, are working to understand how the body protects itself from disease and use that information to form better treatments.
March 18, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Sam Gambhir and Bio-X Fellows Amin Aalipour and Gunsagar Gulati were able to engineer immune cells known as macrophages to detect and flag cancer in mice, which could be used for early cancer diagnostics.
March 15, 2019 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Jennifer Dionne redefines what it means for low-cost semiconductors, called quantum dots, to be near-perfect and meet quality standards.
March 14, 2019 - Stanford Engineering
Through biometric tracking, simulated modeling and medical imaging, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty David Camarillo, Michael Zeineh and Gerald Grant and Stanford Bio-X Fellow Fidel Hernandez show how hits to the side of the head could cause concussions.
March 14, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Joseph Wu have found a way to predict who will suffer heart problems from a common breast-cancer drug, as well as identified an FDA-approved medication that could mitigate those side effects.
March 13, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Some breast cancers return decades later. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Christina Curtis, joined by collaborators at other institutions, has subcategorized tumors to predict recurrence, guide treatment decisions and improve drug development.
March 12, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Michael Snyder, Karl Sylvester, David Stevenson and Tina Cowan plan to study thousands of metabolites in babies, children and pregnant women to understand the origins of disease.
March 12, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Marion Buckwalter, Nima Aghaeepour, Martin Angst, and Maarten Lansberg have found that transient changes in circulating immune cell types can predict the likelihood of dementia one year after a stroke.
March 11, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Desiree LaBeaud finds that pneumonia vaccines seem to work better if their mothers are treated for parasitic infections during pregnancy.
March 11, 2019 - Stanford Earth Matters
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Stephen Luby is on a quest to save lives by cleaning up production of a ubiquitous building material.
March 7, 2019 - Stanford News
A February 21 launch was the culmination of years of work by Stanford Bio-X Fellow Yonatan Winetraub’s nonprofit SpaceIL, which he co-founded in 2011.
March 6, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Sean Mackey and other researchers say we can curb the prescription opioid crisis, while treating pain, by using a variety of tactics.
March 6, 2019 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Dennis Wall's group is working on a smartphone app that could help diagnose autism in minutes – and provide ongoing therapy as well.
March 5, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A phase 1 clinical trial by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Irv Weissman, Mark Pegram, and Ravindra Majeti, of an antibody against the “don‘t eat me’ signal on cancer cells, appears safe and well-tolerated by patients with advanced cancers.
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