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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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. -
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." -
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 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. -
Stanford team makes biotechnology interactive with remote-control labs
April 21, 2015 - Stanford Report
Using biotic processing units, Bio-X affiliated faculty member Ingmar Riedel-Kruse, 2014 Bio-X Morgridge Family SIGF Fellow Zahid Hossain, and 2013 Bio-X Travel Award recipient Nate Cira let people interact with cells or do experiments from afar. -
Karl Deisseroth wins prestigious Albany Prize
April 20, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliated faculty member and Clark Center resident Karl Deisseroth will be honored for his seminal role in the field of optogenetics, which allows scientists to manipulate nerve-cell activity in freely moving animals to study their behavior. -
Viral proteins may regulate human embryonic development
April 20, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Human embryos make viral proteins within days of fertilization, a study under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Joanna Wysocka, Catherine Blish, and Howard Chang shows. These proteins affect gene expression and may protect the cells from infection. -
Scientists detect lymphoma relapse by monitoring cell-free tumor DNA
April 17, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliated faculty members Ash Alizadeh and Maximilian Diehn find that cell-free tumor DNA monitoring is better at detecting disease in relapsing lymphoma patients than circulating tumor cells or imaging methods. -
Cell type responsible for scarring, skin-cancer growth identified
April 16, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliated faculty members Michael Longaker, Irv Weissman, Peter Lorenz, and Geoffrey Gurtner find that a single cell type in the skin of mice contributes to scarring after wound healing or radiation damage, and facilitates the growth of melanoma. -
Encountering a wall corrects 'GPS' cells in mouse brains, study finds
April 16, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliated faculty members Lisa Giocomo and Surya Ganguli, partially supported by a 2014 Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, have found more evidence that the brain’s grid cells help a mouse mentally map its location. -
Adherence to blood thinner best with pharmacist management
April 14, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Mintu Turakhia found that adherence to a new-generation anticoagulant, used to prevent stroke in heart disease patients, is best at sites with pharmacist-led management. -
Stanford population-health sciences to add director, research opportunities
April 13, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The center, under the directorship of Bio-X affiliated faculty member Mark Cullen, will offer research funding, education and access to insurance claims and medical records. -
Study deciphers the noise in the human brain
April 8, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Electrical recordings directly from the human brain show remarkable precision in the coordination of widely distributed regions involved in memory recall, at rest and during sleep. -
Stanford-led study finds limited mutations involved in transmission of drug-resistant HIV
April 7, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study finds 4 mutations in strains of drug-resistant HIV, which researchers with Bio-X affiliated faculty Robert Shafer say is spreading at a more modest rate than feared.