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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Stanford researchers seek 'Holy Grail' in battery design
July 29, 2014 - Stanford Report
Clark Center resident faculty and Bio-X founding faculty Steven Chu and Bio-X affiliated faculty Yi Cui bring pure lithium anode closer to reality with development of protective layer of interconnected carbon domes. -
Q&A: Stanford's Carla Shatz on fostering successful interdisciplinary collaboration
July 29, 2014 - Stanford Report
Dr. Carla Shatz, the director of Stanford Bio-X, talks about the report's recommendations and the factors that have helped Bio-X shine. -
Autistic brain less flexible at taking on tasks, study shows
July 29, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The research teams of Bio-X affiliates Vinod Menon and Carl Feinstein find that certain brain networks in children with autism do not appear to change much when switching from a resting state to engagement with a task. -
Stanford Medicine X conference will take place Sept. 5-7
July 29, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Medicine X, presented by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Lawrence Chum, will feature a broad range of themes, including mental health, the “no-smartphone” patient and the medical team of the future. -
Stanford to work with Duke, Google on pilot study
July 25, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Clark Center resident and Bio-X affiliate Dr. Sam Gambhir collaborates with Duke University and Google, planning a comprehensive initiative to understand the molecular markers that are key to health. -
Researchers invent nanotech microchip to diagnose type-1 diabetes
July 13, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In research funded in part by Bio-X, affiliated faculty members Brian Feldman and Hongjie Dai and Bio-X SIGF Fellow Bo Zhang have invented a cheap, portable, microchip-based test for diagnosing type-1 diabetes. -
Seeing the inner workings of the brain made easier
July 9, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliate and Clark Center PI Karl Deisseroth and his team have improved on their original technique for peering into the intact brain. -
Stanford faculty teams offer bold solutions for people and planet
July 3, 2014 - Stanford Report
Stanford Woods Institute announces 2014 Environmental Venture Projects, funding Stanford faculty including Bio-X affiliates Scott Boyd, Sindy Tang, and Craig Criddle. -
Stanford team creates tool to help unravel secrets of cancer
July 3, 2014 - Stanford Report
Interdisciplinary collaboration overseen by Bio-X affiliated faculty members Richard Zare, Robert Tibshirani, and Dean Felsher identifies biological signatures in cancer cells that can be traced back to the original cancer gene. -
Stanford given $7.2 million grant to join Undiagnosed Diseases Network
July 1, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
$7.2 million, four-year grant awarded by the NIH to Stanford faculty including Bio-X affiliated faculty member Euan Ashley. -
Drew Endy discusses what bioengineers should be vibrating about
June 25, 2014 - Stanford Engineering
TedX talk on the future of bioengineering delivered by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Drew Endy. -
Obesity before pregnancy linked to earliest preterm births, Stanford/Packard study finds
June 24, 2014 - Stanford School of Medicine
Researchers including Bio-X affiliate Dr. Gary Shaw find that women who are obese before becoming pregnant face an increased risk of delivering a very premature baby. -
Scientists tie social behavior to activity in specific brain circuit
June 19, 2014 - Stanford School of Medicine
Signaling activity along a single nerve tract deep within the brain predicts a living, wide-awake, freely moving animal’s tendency to socialize, finds Stanford Bio-X affiliate Karl Deisseroth. -
Seeing the inner workings of the brain made easier by new technique from Stanford scientists
June 19, 2014 - Stanford Report
Stanford Bio-X scientists headed by Karl Deisseroth have improved on their original technique for peering into the intact brain. -
Stanford bioengineers invent a way to speed up drug discovery
June 19, 2014 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliate Markus Covert develops a new technique to track, in live cells, a key family of proteins that regulate health or cause disease. -
Blocking brain’s ‘internal marijuana’ may trigger early Alzheimer’s deficits, study shows
June 18, 2014 - Stanford School of Medicine
Bio-X affiliated faculty find that A-beta, a substance suspected in Alzheimer’s disease, may impair learning and memory long before plaques form in the brain. -
Stanford bioengineers improve upon football mouthguard that senses head impacts
June 19, 2014 - Stanford University
A device developed by Stanford Bio-X scientists could one day provide real-time measurements of the head impacts sustained by football players. -
New Stanford blood test identifies heart-transplant rejection earlier than biopsy can
June 18, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Stanford Bio-X affiliate Steven Quake finds elevated levels of donor-derived DNA in the blood of heart transplant recipients can accurately diagnose organ rejection. -
Bio-X celebrates tenth kids science day
June 17, 2014 - The Dish
Bio-X labs introduce kids to the fun of science at the tenth annual kids science day. -
Vast genetic diversity among Mexicans found in large-scale study
June 12, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Some of Mexico’s indigenous groups are as genetically different from one another as Europeans from Chinese, finds Bio-X affiliate member Carlos Bustamante. Cosmopolitan Mexicans reflect these differences, which affect biomedical traits. -
Stanford Bio-X announces the 2014 graduate fellows
June 5, 2014
Stanford Bio-X has selected 21 graduate students to participate in the next round of its three-year fellowship program. -
Coaxing iPS cells to become more specialized prior to transplantation cuts rejection risk, study shows
May 30, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Joseph Wu discovered a way of reducing the risk that the body will reject therapies developed from stem cells. -
Organs in a dish help pinpoint cancer-causing mutations
May 28, 2014 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Scope blog entry describes work by Bio-X affiliated member Calvin Kuo. -
On alert: Study identifies cell-cycle phase that primes stem cells for action
May 25, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Tom Rando discovered a way that stem cells go on alert, readying themselves to respond to injury. -
Discovery could pave way to new treatment for rare jaw tumor
May 25, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Bio-X affiliated faculty discovered mutations that underly a rare tumor of the jaw. -
Stanford's big data conference: How 1s and 0s are advancing medicine
May 23, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Big Data symposium features talks and discussions by Executive Committee member Lloyd Minor and Bio-X affiliated faculty members Julie Salzman, Michael Snyder, and Atul Butte and Clark Center faculty member Stephen Quake. -
Listening in on the Ras pathway identifies new target for cancer therapy
May 22, 2014 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliated members Julien Sage and Or Gozani found a new protein that could be useful for developing cancer therapies. -
Stanford researchers discover immune system's rules of engagement
May 22, 2014 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliate Christopher Garcia discovered how some immune cells recognize invaders. -
Solving big questions requires big computation
May 22, 2014 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affilated faculty make use of Stanford's computing resources to answer big questions in science. -
FDA launches Stanford-UCSF partnership to improve drug development and regulation
May 19, 2014 - Inside Stanford Medicine
Grant awarded to Bio-X affiliated faculty member Russ Altman and other Stanford faculty in collaboration with UCSF.