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.
June 28, 2017 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Mark Cutkosky's group combined gecko-inspired adhesives and a custom robotic gripper and tested it in multiple zero gravity settings, including the International Space Station.
June 27, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliates Harry Greenberg and William Robinson zeroed in on a few structural components of rotavirus that appear to be similar enough from one strain to the next that a single vaccine might generate antibodies effective against all strains.
June 26, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
The research, from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member and Clark Center faculty member Alice Ting, emerged out of neuroscientists’ frustration with their inability to capture a fine-grained picture of what the whole brain was doing in experiments.
June 26, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Sindy Tang developed a microscopic guillotine to try to learn how single cells repair wounds, which could lead to self-healing materials and machines.
June 26, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Atrial fibrillation patients who got early cardiology care had a reduced risk of stroke, Bio-X affiliates Mintu Turakhia, Sanjiv Narayan, and Paul J. Wang found.
June 22, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Mike Baiocchi applies statistics in ways that could improve global health. His latest project is a study on a massive rape-prevention program in Kenya.
June 22, 2017 - Stanford News
The nation’s drug policies are based on unproven assumptions about addiction. Bio-X affiliates Brian Knutson and Rob Malenka explain that neuroscience could help shape more effective policies and save lives.
June 22, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Euan Ashley, Stephen Montgomery, and James Ford and 2010 Bio-X SIGF Fellow Aaron Wenger have used a technology called long-read sequencing to diagnose a patient’s rare genetic condition that current technology failed to diagnose.
June 21, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Researchers including Bio-X affiliates Peter Jackson and Edward Plowey have not only solved one of the thornier mysteries about how obesity works, they’ve made a discovery they think could help tame the global obesity epidemic.
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.
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 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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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 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.
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