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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Gene discoveries may lead to regeneration of cells needed for hearing
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. -
Some heartburn drugs may boost risk of heart attack, study finds
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. -
Just add water: Stanford engineers develop a computer that operates on water droplets
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. -
Stanford scientists show fMRI memory detectors can be easily fooled
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. -
Carla Shatz is awarded Gruber Prize
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. -
New 'designer carbon' from Stanford boosts battery performance
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. -
Stanford breakthrough heralds super-efficient light-based computers
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. -
Researchers tie unexpected brain structures to creativity — and to stifling it
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. -
Wild chimps teach scientists about gene that encodes HIV-fighting protein
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. -
Grippy not sticky: Stanford engineers debut an incredibly adhesive material that doesn't get stuck
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. -
Tiny spheres of human cells mimic the brain, researchers say
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. -
Fly-catching robot developed at Stanford speeds biomedical research
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. -
Stanford earthquake hazards researcher at center of Nepal quake
May 22, 2015 - Stanford Report
PhD student Anne Sanquini's work and the research of Bio-X affiliated faculty member Simon Klemperer studies how to motivate people to take precautionary action to protect their homes and schools against earthquakes. -
Adults harbor lots of risky autoreactive immune cells, study finds
May 19, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliated faculty members Mark Davis, Stephen Quake, and Darrell Wilson find that though self-targeting immune cells remain prolific in adults’ bloodstreams, some kind of internal brake seems to prevent them from triggering autoimmune disease. -
Stanford scientists discover how microbes acquire electricity in making methane
May 18, 2015 - Stanford Report
New findings by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Alfred Spormann could pave the way for microbial "factories" that produce renewable biofuels and chemicals. -
Blocking a metabolic pathway may shrink aggressive form of common kidney cancer
May 11, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliated faculty members Dean Felsher and Richard Zare find that an aggressive kidney cancer subsides in mice when the metabolism of glutamine is blocked. -
Stanford researchers create a promising solution for urban toilets in Haiti and elsewhere
May 11, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jenna Davis finds portable dry toilet and waste service systems effective in Haiti's urban slums to help solve the problem of "flying toilets." -
Stanford biologists discover that large whales have nerves that stretch like bungee cords
May 7, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jeremy Goldbogen discovered that unique nerves in fin whales' mouths extend by up to 115 percent to accommodate their food. -
Ulcer-causing bacteria induces stomach stem cell growth in mice, researchers find
May 6, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Findings from Stanford faculty including Bio-X affiliated faculty member Roeland Nusse could explain why H. pylori is a risk factor for gastric cancer. -
Stanford researchers observe the moment when a mind is changed
May 5, 2015 - Stanford Report
A new algorithm developed by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Krishna Shenoy and Bio-X Travel Award recipient Matt Kaufman enables a moment-by-moment analysis of brain activity each time a lab monkey reaches this way or that during an experiment. -
Existing drug may treat the deadliest childhood brain tumor, study finds
May 4, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A multicenter study under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Michelle Monje has identified an FDA-approved medication that prolongs survival in mice with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a brain tumor that now lacks chemotherapy treatments. -
Blue whales lack the ability to avoid cargo ships, says Stanford biologist
May 4, 2015 - Stanford Report
As the largest animals in the ocean, blue whales have not evolved defensive behaviors. New research by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jeremy Goldbogen suggests this might explain why the whales are so prone to ship collisions. -
Cal-BRAIN grants boost neuroengineering projects
May 1, 2015 - Stanford Neurosciences Institute News
Two Bio-X affiliated faculty members, Hongjie Dai and Nicholas Melosh, developing techniques for monitoring neurons as they fire signals throughout the brain got a boost in the first round of funding by California’s neuroscience research grants program. -
Neuroscientist studies how brain encodes spatial information
May 1, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Lisa Giocomo always took a detour through medicine and psychology on her way to becoming a neurobiologist. She studies grid cells, the brain’s navigation system. -
Implanted pump helps heart-failure patient graduate from high school
May 1, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Doctors said 17-year-old Tovi Balliao was too sick to wait for a heart transplant. But now, a pump implanted in his heart under Bio-X affiliated faculty member David Rosenthal has let him delay a transplant indefinitely. -
Scientists find way to monitor progress of stem cells after transplantation
April 30, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Research by Bio-X affiliated faculty members Jin Hyung Lee and Ricardo Dolmetsch and Bio-X Bowes Fellow Andrew Weitz on detecting successful engraftment of implanted cells in the brain could speed stem-cell therapies’ path to clinical use. -
Foreign antibodies mobilize immune system to fight cancer, study finds
April 29, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Edgar Engleman has found that a mouse’s T cells can be primed to attack and eliminate a malignant tumor by injecting antibodies from another mouse with resistance to the tumor. -
Photovoltaic retinal implant could restore functional sight, researchers say
April 27, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The researchers, under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Daniel Palanker and James Harris, have tested the device only in animals so far, but a clinical trial is planned next year in France. -
Brain tumor growth stimulated by nerve activity in the cortex, study finds
April 23, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
New research by Bio-X affiliated faculty members Michelle Monje, Robert Malenka, and Parag Mallick and 2014 Bio-X USRP Participant Alyssa Noll shows that high-grade gliomas increase their growth by hijacking the machinery of neuroplasticity. -
Kobilka, Snyder elected to AAAS membership
April 23, 2015 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Bio-X affiliated faculty members Brian Kobilka, MD, and Michael Snyder, PhD, will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences this fall.