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.
January 4, 2023
The Stanford Bio-X Leadership Council is pleased to announce the 20th annual competition for Stanford Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowships.
February 13, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Medical residents spend more than five hours a shift in front of computer screens, much of it reviewing notes, Stanford research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jonathan Chen has found.
February 13, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Scientists including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member James Zou have created an algorithm that works to generate and refine DNA sequences that are likely to code for antimicrobial proteins.
February 4, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In rheumatoid arthritis, helper T cells behave differently from regular cells. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Cornelia Weyand and Jorg Goronzy have learned why.
January 31, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The discovery, by researchers under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Nirao Shah, of neurons that drive mice’s innate ability to identify the sex of other mice highlights the importance of biological influences on sex-specific behaviors.
January 8, 2019
The Stanford Bio-X Leadership Council is pleased to announce the 16th annual competition for Stanford Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowships.
December 20, 2018
Developing drugs is typically the domain of large pharmaceutical companies. Felix and Heather Baker Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow and Stanford Bio-X SIGF Teresa Purzner shares an example of drug development for a rare pediatric brain cancer that was done in a university setting.
November 5, 2018
The Stanford Bio-X Program and the Novo Nordisk Foundation would like to announce our call for applications for the Visiting Scholar or Postdoc Fellowships @ Stanford Bio-X!
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 10, 2018
The Stanford Bio-X Program would like to announce our call for applications for the Undergraduate Summer Research Program with funding available starting in the summer of 2018.
July 26, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A molecule called propionate inhibits the growth of Salmonella in mice and may be a promising treatment, say Stanford Bio-X affiliates Denise Monack, José Vilches-Moure, Justin Sonnenburg, Ami Bhatt, and KC Huang, and Travel Awardee Amanda Jacobson.
July 26, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new genetic screen may be able to predict low bone-mineral density, osteoporosis and fracture risk prior to clinical symptoms, according to a retrospective study of nearly 400,000 people by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Stuart Kim.
July 25, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Lisa Giocomo and Surya Ganguli shows that how our brains blend cues to estimate our speed and position in space depends on where we are and how fast we seem to be moving.
July 24, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Mike Snyder and Tracey McLaughlin in which blood sugar levels were continuously monitored reveals that even people who think they’re “healthy” should pay attention to what they eat.
July 23, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Olivia Martinez and Mark Davis have joined forces to learn how immune cells in some kidney transplant patients fight a common virus. The work could lead to a test to predict who is at risk and/or develop treatments.
July 19, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
What if you could stitch together single cells any way you wanted to? Research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and Bio-X Fellow David Glass shows that potential medical and even industrial applications abound.
July 18, 2018 - Stanford Engineering
A thin membrane around some bacterial cell walls has structural properties critical for survival, find Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty KC Huang and Julie Theriot, Bio-X Fellow Amanda Miguel, and Travel Awardee Gabriel Billings. Targeting it could treat infections.
July 17, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Diagnosing rare genetic diseases requires slow, educated guesswork. Stanford Bio-X affiliates Gill Bejerano and Jon Bernstein, Bio-X Fellows Johannes Birgmeier and Aaron Wenger, and Bio-X USRP participant Cole Deisseroth want to automate the process.
May 25, 2018 - Stanford News
An outbreak of Nipah in South India has renewed interest in the virus, which has a high mortality rate and no vaccine or cure. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Stephen Luby explains risk factors and potential interventions.
May 21, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Mimicking a stem cells' natural environment in the laboratory is impossible without recent bioengineering advances. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Helen Blau and Sarah Heilshorn, as well as Travel Award recipient Chris Madl, discuss the field.
May 14, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
With a radioactive tracer, scientists can use a PET scan to quickly tell whether a cancer immunotherapy will be effective, in work from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Sam Gambhir, Ronald Levy, and Michelle James, and Stanford Bio-X Fellow Aaron Mayer.
May 11, 2018 - Stanford News
A new wastewater treatment plant will be the largest to test work from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Craig Criddle that significantly reduces the cost of cleaning water.
May 10, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Euan Ashley and Jonathan Chen sifted through more than a million texts to find out if clinicians inadvertently endorse brand-name medications over less expensive generic alternatives.
May 9, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Justin Sonnenburg finds that gut bacteria able to digest seaweed can outcompete native bacteria in the large intestine of nori-fed mice. Favoring one species over others in the gut could help advance precision health.
May 8, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Nigam Shah discusses a new study in which a machine learning system predicts patient outcomes, and he outlines the implications for artificial intelligence in medicine.
May 8, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A new gene-editing technology from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Lars Steinmetz and Ron Davis and Stanford Bio-X USRP participants Julia Schulz and Tucker Burnett enables scientists to make and track thousands of edits at once.
May 7, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Stephen Galli is working to learn how Exposure to 'third-hand smoke' — the chemicals left behind on surfaces after smoke has dissipated — increases the severity of asthma symptoms in mice.
May 4, 2018 - Stanford News
Artificial intelligence drew much inspiration from the human brain but went in its own direction. Now, AI has come full circle and is helping neuroscientists like Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Daniel Yamins better understand how our brains work.
May 3, 2018 - Stanford Medicine News Center
When Stanford Bio-X founding faculty member James Spudich was diagnosed with lung cancer, researchers had a rare, and unexpected, opportunity to study healthy and diseased human tissue at an unprecedented level of detail. Numerous other Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members, including Stanford Bio-X founding faculty member Steve Chu, are contributing.
May 3, 2018 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Howard Chang and Christina Curtis solve a mystery: how DNA mutations can increase expression of Myc, a cancer-associated gene.
May 2, 2018 - Stanford News
With computer simulations and experiments, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Ron Dror revealed new information on a molecular pathway that enables roughly half of all medications to achieve their desired effects but also causes many side effects.
