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.
April 18, 2018 - Stanford News
Millions are slowly losing their vision to diseases of the retina like age-related macular degeneration. A device from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Daniel Palanker, supported by a Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, may help some of them see again.
July 3, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Humans in Europe and Asia evolved shorter bones and an increased risk of osteo-arthritis, which may have helped in colder climates, Bio-X affiliate David Kingsley finds.
June 20, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In a provocative new perspective piece, researchers under Bio-X affiliate Jonathan Pritchard say that disease genes are spread uniformly across the genome, not clustered in specific molecular pathways, as has been thought.
June 20, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Adam de la Zerda, Steve Chu, and Darius Moshfeghi and Bio-X Bowes Fellow Orly Liba have found a simple, low-cost fix that substantially improves optical scanning images, opening the door to "virtual biopsies."
June 20, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Research from Bio-X affiliate Thomas Rando and 2008 Bio-X Fellow Melinda Cromie has outlined a 3-part approach that, in mice, helps muscle stem cells grow new tissue.
June 16, 2017 - Stanford News
Space robots utilizing work by Bio-X affiliate Mark Cutkosky that are traveling through space, hauling debris and exploring distant asteroids, may hold the technological key to problems facing drones and autonomous cars here on Earth.
June 15, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Ribosomes are startlingly variable in their composition and associations, which confers on them the ability to regulate genes, confounding previous ideas, Bio-X affiliates Maria Barna and Mary Teruel say. The work is partially supported by an IIP Seed Grant.
June 14, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
In the ongoing hunt to find better treatments for heart disease, research from Bio-X affiliate Joseph Woo and Bio-X USRP participant Alexandra Bourdillon shows promising results using an unusual strategy: photosynthetic bacteria and light.
June 13, 2017 - Stanford News
Ocean animals leave behind DNA in shed cells, tissues, scales and feces. Scientists including Bio-X affiliate Alexandria Boehm have shown these genetic clues can be used as forensic markers to survey marine life in complex deep-water environments.
June 12, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
People with coronary artery disease face an elevated risk for shingles because aberrant immune cells dial down the body’s immune response to viral pathogens, Stanford research from Bio-X affiliates Cornelia Weyand and Jorg Goronzy shows.
June 12, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Helen Blau and Scott Delp and Travel Awardees Adelaida Palla and Nora Yucel have found that a metabolite stimulates mouse muscle stem cells to proliferate after injury. Anti-inflammatory drugs block its production and inhibit muscle repair.
June 12, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Manu Prakash designs low-cost scientific instruments, including a $1 microscope made of folded paper, a 20-cent blood centrifuge and a $5 programmable chemistry set made from a toy hand-crank music box.
June 8, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Purvesh Khatri has developed a method to evaluate the expression of human genes in response to different diseases or conditions, which could identify ways to diagnose tuberculosis or predict which patients will likely reject organ transplants.
June 7, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Mark Krasnow and Megan Albertelli have identified more than 20 mouse lemurs with genetic traits for conditions such as heart disease and eye problems, making the tiny primates potentially useful for understanding diseases in humans.
June 5, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Dan Jurafsky and other Stanford researchers detected racial disparities in police officers’ speech in body camera footage from Oakland Police.
June 1, 2017 - Stanford News
New research by Stanford psychologists including Bio-X affiliate Brian Knutson analyzes cultural effects on giving, finding that people are willing to offer more money to others who display similar emotional expressions.
May 31, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford psychiatrist, neuroscientist, bioengineer and Bio-X affiliated faculty member Karl Deisseroth will be honored for three distinct contributions to the medical field: optogenetics, hydrogel-tissue chemistry and research into depression.
May 31, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Targeting backup biological pathways used by cancers can lead to more efficient drug development and less-toxic therapies. Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Ravi Majeti, David Dill, and Erinn Rankin have developed a new way to identify these pathways.
May 24, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Research from Bio-X affiliates Euan Ashley and Trevor Hastie and Bio-X Fellow Anna Shcherbina into the accuracy of 7 wristband activity monitors showed that 6 out of 7 measured heart rate within 5%, but none measured energy expenditure well.
May 22, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford cardiologist Tim Assimes and a consortium of scientists including Bio-X affiliate Tom Quertermous pinpointed 15 newly identified genomic regions associated with heart disease.
May 22, 2017 - Stanford News
Self-driving technology presents ethical challenges and questions. Many at Stanford tackling this issue, including Bio-X affiliate Margaret Levi, offer perspectives.
May 22, 2017 - Stanford Engineering
Bio-X affiliate Chris Manning discusses the evolution of computational linguistics and where it's headed next. He was recently named the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning.
May 19, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
As research from Bio-X affiliate Alan Schatzberg and others shows that the hallucinogen is a potentially powerful treatment for intractable mental disorders, and academics continue to debate its safety, private clinics offer the drug to patients now.
May 18, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Robert Sinclair finds that nanoscale stretching or compressing boosts the performance of ceria, a material used in catalytic converters and clean-energy tech.
May 18, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Peter Parham examined a particular version of a gene which encodes for an important cell-surface protein that’s a key player in our immune response.
May 18, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Joshua Knowles argues that although many treat heart disease as though it is inevitable, this is not the case.
May 17, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
An antibody to the cell receptor PD-1 may launch a two-pronged assault on cancer by initiating attacks by both T cells and macrophages, a Stanford study from Bio-X affiliate Irv Weissman has found.
May 15, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Noah Rosenberg finds that new way of connecting distinct sets of DNA markers could help police and scientists, but it may raise privacy concerns as well.
May 11, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Howard Chang is the co-creator of “ATAC-seq” (Assay for Transposase-Accessible Chromatin with high throughput sequencing), a next-generation test for scanning DNA to assess which of its genes are activated.
May 10, 2017 - Stanford News
Technology from Bio-X affiliate H. Tom Soh can monitor and maintain the drug levels in animals' bloodstreams, which could help deliver optimal doses of life-saving drugs.
May 10, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Michael Bernstein's research addresses flash organizations, which enable anyone to assemble an organization and pursue complex, open-ended goals.
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