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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DNA ‘barcodes’ help researchers track rise, fall of yeast dynasties
February 25, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliated faculty members Gavin Sherlock, Dmitri Petrov, and Daniel Fisher, partially supported by a 2012 Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, have developed a technique for understanding how cancer cells evolve or how a virus spreads and changes. -
Customized DNA rings aid early cancer detection in mice, study finds
February 23, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Sam Gambhir's group finds that tiny DNA rings, carrying instructions for making a blood-detectable biomarker, can enter both healthy cells and cancer cells. But only cancer cells follow the recipe to make the biomarker. -
Small molecule might help reduce cancer in at-risk population, study finds
February 23, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Scientists under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Daria Mochly-Rosen have shown that small molecules can “hijack” enzyme function in mice, suggesting a possible preventive mechanism for alcohol-related cancers in an at-risk population. -
Researchers measure concussion forces in greatest detail yet
February 19, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Research led by Bio-X affiliated faculty members David Camarillo, Jaime Lopez, and Gerald Grant, with 2014 Bio-X Bowes Fellow Lyndia Wu and 2010 Bio-X Bowes Fellow Michael Yip, could eventually lead to better concussion detection and prevention. -
Scientists discover a protein's novel role in several types of cancers
February 19, 2015 - Stanford Report
Stanford ChEM-H scientists, including Bio-X affiliated faculty member Chaitan Khosla, are helping to develop a novel cancer therapy based on a new finding of a protein that inadvertently promotes cancer growth. -
Animals tend to evolve toward larger sizes over time, Stanford study finds
February 19, 2015 - Stanford Report
New Stanford research under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jonathan Payne shows that animals tend to evolve toward larger body sizes over time. Over the past 542 million years, the mean size of marine animals has increased 150-fold. -
Project maps human epigenome, discovers immune system role in Alzheimer’s
February 18, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new reference map developed by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Anshul Kundaje will help interpret the genetic basis for disease. -
New air filter could help Beijing residents breathe easily
February 18, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Yi Cui's group has turned a material commonly used in surgical gloves into a low-cost, highly efficient air filter. It could be used to improve facemasks and window screens, and maybe even scrub exhaust from power plants. -
Tiny fish makes big splash in aging research at Stanford
February 12, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Anne Brunet and Steven Artandi disabled aging-associated genes in the short-lived African killifish, including one for an enzyme called telomerase, whose absence caused humanlike disease in the animal. -
Scientists develop comparative search engine that helps to predict human gene function
February 12, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate Tobias Meyer have developed a search engine to help identify human gene function by comparing human genes to nonhuman genes. -
‘Big Bang’ model of colon cancer identifies role time plays in tumor-growth dynamics
February 10, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new model by Bio-X affiliate Christina Curtis's group of how colon tumors grow emphasizes the importance of time and the early origin of differences among tumors. -
Researchers discover insulin-decreasing hormone in flies, humans
February 3, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Seung Kim, including Bio-X Bowes Fellow Ron Alfa, have identified a hormone that decreases insulin production during starvation in fruit flies and humans. -
Unlocking the brain’s plasticity
February 2, 2015 - Stanford Report
2013 and 2011 Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow Richie Sapp was part of a team under Bio-X Director Carla Shatz whose research could make it easier for adults to learn and possibly heal after brain injuries. -
Face blindness predicted by structural differences in the brain, Stanford neuroscientists discover
January 30, 2015 - Stanford Report
Differences in connectivity in the brain predict face blindness in adults, say Stanford neuroscientists under Bio-X affiliated faculty Kalanit Grill-Spector and Brian Wandell. -
Stanford bioengineers develop tool for reprogramming genetic code
January 26, 2015 - Stanford Report
By selectively manipulating how DNA issues biological commands, Stanford bioengineers under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Lei Stanley Qi have developed a tool that could prove useful in future gene therapies. -
Brain scientists speak at Davos economic forum
January 23, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Members of teams created through the Stanford Neurosciences Institute's Big Ideas in Neuroscience initiative, including Bio-X affiliated faculty members Amit Etkin, Marion Buckwalter, Anne Brunet and Tony Wyss-Coray, spoke at the World Economic Forum. -
A real tear-jerker: Team creates device to alleviate dry eye
January 23, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A search for medical needs in eye clinics led a Stanford Biodesign fellow, mentored by Bio-X affiliated faculty members Mark Blumenkranz and Daniel Palanker, to develop an implantable neurostimulator that painlessly increases natural tear production. -
Telomere extension turns back aging clock in cultured human cells
January 22, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Helen Blau, John Cooke, and Juan Santiago, including 2010 Bio-X Skippy Frank Fellow Jennifer Brady, delivered a modified RNA that encodes a telomere-extending protein to cultured human cells. -
The industrial revolution of the oceans will imperil wildlife, says Stanford scientist
January 16, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Steve Palumbi shows that the industrialization of the oceans mirrors the early stages of activities that triggered mass extinctions on land. -
Environment, not genes, plays starring role in human immune variation
January 15, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Gene-sequencing technologies have focused immunologists’ attention on the role of genes in diseases, but research by Bio-X affiliated faculty members Mark Davis, Atul Butte, and Holden Maecker suggest that the environment is an even greater factor. -
Researchers isolate stem cell that gives rise to bones, cartilage in mice
January 15, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The discovery, under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Michael Longaker, Irv Weissman, and Calvin Kuo, of a skeletal stem cell in mice sets the stage for new methods to grow cartilage and bone for use in medical therapies. -
Stanford engineers develop a device for measuring how birds take flight
January 15, 2015 - Stanford Report
A new device invented by Bio-X affiliated faculty member David Lentink will answer long-held questions about the forces birds generate while flying, and could lead to the development of innovative, efficient unmanned aerial vehicles. -
Apply for the 2015 Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program!
January 14, 2015
The Bio-X Program would like to announce the 10th call for applications for the Undergraduate Summer Research Program with funding available starting in the summer of 2015. -
New mobile app from Stanford and Sony lets your phone conduct research on breast cancer and Alzheimer's while it charges
January 12, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Vijay Pande has partnered with Sony to bring his Folding@home project to smartphones, which could provide insight into diseases. -
New insights into how the brain stays bright
January 12, 2015 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliated faculty and Clark Center faculty member Axel Brunger and a team of several Stanford colleagues and UCSF scientists have moved neuroscience a step forward with a close-up inspection of a brain-wide nano-recycling operation. -
Apply for the 2015 Stanford Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowships!
January 9, 2015
The Stanford Bio-X Leadership Council is pleased to announce the 12th annual competition for Stanford Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowships -
Stanford researchers measure concussion forces in greatest detail yet
January 6, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty member, 2004 Bio-X Bowes Fellow, and 2012 IIP Seed Grant awardee David Camarillo and 2013 Bio-X Honorary Fellow Fidel Hernandez have measured the forces imparted on the brain in greater detail than ever before. -
New version of common antibiotic could eliminate risk of hearing loss
January 2, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Anthony Ricci, Alan Cheng, Daria Mochly-Rosen, and Michael Hsieh, a study in mice has found that a commonly used antibiotic can be modified to eliminate the risk that it will cause hearing loss. -
Newly identified molecular network in brain implicated in autism, researchers say
December 30, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Some cases of autism may be caused by a dysfunctional corpus callosum, resulting in poor communication between brain hemispheres, a new study suggests. -
Skin patch could help heal, prevent diabetic ulcers, study finds
December 22, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Geoffrey Gurtner knew that a drug administered to remove iron from the blood could also overcome diabetic interference with blood vessel formation, but finding the right way to deliver it was the challenge.