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.
October 12, 2018 - Stanford News
A new computer model from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Ellen Kuhl maps how misshapen proteins associated with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and ALS spread throughout the brain. The work, supported by a Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, could aid in finding ways to diagnose and treat these neurodegenerative disorders.
October 2, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The findings of a new study led by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Tina Hernandez-Boussard and Catherine Curtin suggest that illicit drugs are beginning to replace prescription opioids as the source of the national drug epidemic.
October 2, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Sanjay Basu finds that participation in the Supplement-al Nutrition Assistant Program is associated with lower health-care expenditures.
September 29, 2017 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Dan Jurafsky has found that products in Japan sell better if their advertising includes polite language and words that invoke cultural traditions or authority.
September 25, 2017 - Stanford News
Left- and right-handed versions of molecules look similar but have different effects. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Jennifer Dionne's lab is developing an optical filter to sort these molecules, which could lead to purer and safer drugs and agrichemicals.
September 25, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
How muscle stem cells are activated is a mystery, but Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Brian Feldman and Thomas Rando have found another player in muscle regeneration.
September 21, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Allan Reiss has shown that early brain scans may help answer these future-oriented questions for children with fragile X syndrome, the most common genetic cause of developmental disabilities and autism.
September 20, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
High-grade gliomas cease growing in mice if a signaling molecule called neuroligin-3 is absent or its activity is blocked with drugs, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Michelle Monje and Undergraduate Summer Research Program participant Lydia Tam find.
September 15, 2017 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Michael Bernstein and Margaret Levi are addressing the future of work, with technology platforms and policies to protect workers’ rights and help employers assess employee qualifications as part of Stanford’s Cyber Initiative.
September 14, 2017 - Stanford News
Brick kiln pollution is ubiquitous in South Asia. An interdisciplinary team led by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Stephen Luby combines satellite data and political persuasion to track kilns, raise awareness, and convince owners to use cleaner tech.
September 14, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
What makes us thirsty? The answer, from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Liqun Luo and Karl Deisseroth and Undergraduate Summer Research Program participant Michael Chen, lies in a set of neurons that make life unpleasant for those behind on fluid intake.
September 12, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Sanjay Basu set out to figure out whether, and to what degree, a capitation payment model could help a primary care practice shift from the traditional fee-for-service system to one based on population health management.
September 1, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A woman’s immune system changes throughout a normal pregnancy, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Martin Angst, Garry Nolan, Robert Tibshirani, David Stevenson, and Gary Shaw have found, which could lay the groundwork for predicting preterm birth.
August 31, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Prior Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program participant and Stanford Bio-X Fellow Amin Aalipour, working with Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Sam Gambhir, is interested in fighting diseases by developing early detection techniques.
August 31, 2017 - Stanford News
A new solar cell developed by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Reinhold Dauskardt, inspired by the compound eyes of insects, could help scientists overcome a major roadblock to solar panels made of perovskite.
August 31, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Lucy O'Brien, Undergraduate Summer Research Program participant Sang Ngo, and Travel Award recipient Jackson Liang found a path of communication between dying cells and stem cells that create their replacements.
August 30, 2017 - Stanford News
In an era of nearly boundless online “friend” networks, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Jamil Zaki found that students are able to distinguish those real-life friends who are most able to help them deal with stressful times.
August 30, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
While data on the moms of newborn American children has been abundant, equivalent data on dads hasn’t — a gap that Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Michael Eisenberg and his team have now filled.
August 29, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty David Relman, Susan Holmes, Gary Shaw, and David Stevenson found that women who deliver babies prematurely have different vaginal bacteria during pregnancy than women whose pregnancies go to term.
August 29, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Howard Chang, Rhiju Das, and William Greenleaf have launched a new challenge on the Eterna computer game: players will design a CRISPR-controlling molecule, opening possibilities for research and therapies.
August 27, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Disparities exist in how babies of different racial and ethnic origins are treated in California’s neonatal intensive care units, but this could be changed, says Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Henry Lee.
August 24, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Justin Sonnenburg and Josh Elias have linked a traditional population’s seasonally varying diet to cyclical changes in the number of gut-residing microbial species.
August 22, 2017 - Stanford News
A survey from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Steven Quake, Gary Shaw, and David Stevenson of DNA fragments circulating in the blood suggests the microbes living in us are more diverse than previously known: 99 percent of the DNA has never been seen.
August 22, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
“Humanized” mice are used to study human immune responses, but they are inadequate for stem cell studies, says Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Joseph Wu. Optimized models are needed for clinical decision-making.
August, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Magazine
Bio-X Director Carla Shatz and her team made some of the past 40 years’ most important — and at times controversial — discoveries about brain wiring during developmentally critical periods. Driven by curiosity and a refusal to be bound by traditional thinking, Shatz has time and again found herself in uncharted and fertile territory.
August, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Magazine
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Jeffrey Goldberg, Michael Marmor, Daniel Palanker, Mark Blumenkranz, and Andrew Huberman are working to help people regain or preserve their sight, using new technology and a better understanding of the eye.
August 17, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Gill Bejerano and Stanford Bio-X Fellow Johannes Birgmeier used cryptography to cloak irrelevant information in individuals’ genomes but reveal disease-associated mutations, which could improve patient privacy.
August 17, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Michelle Monje and Peter Jackson and Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program participant Dominique Cooper ask why high-grade gliomas often metastasize to a specific part of the brain.
August 16, 2017 - Stanford News
Studying the brains of fish with Stanford Bio-X affiliate Russ Fernald led 2014 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program participant Danielle Katz in an unexpected direction – a degree in mechanical engineering.
August 16, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Tina Hernandez-Boussard examined the most common non-pharmaceutical pain management therapies following knee replacement surgery, finding that acupuncture and electrotherapy could reduce and delay opioid use.
August 16, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Sergiu Pasca, Ben Barres, Steve Quake, and Richard Reimer, as well as Stanford Bio-X Fellow Steven Sloan, have used a revolutionary 3-D culture technique to nurse astrocytes to maturity in laboratory glassware.
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