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.
-
Interdisciplinary advances can help us understand the complexity of the brain - Stanford Bio-X Seed Grant
Interdisciplinary advances can help us understand the complexity of the brain: Dr. Sergiu Pasca, Assistant Professor of Psych & Behavioral Sciences, and Dr. Hunter Fraser, Associate Professor of Biology, share the progress of their Stanford Bio-X Seed Grant!
-
Apply for the 2020 Stanford Bio-X, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, and Stanford ChEM-H Fellowships!
January 8, 2020
The Stanford Bio-X Leadership Council is pleased to announce the 17th annual competition for Stanford Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowships. -
Stanford Bio-X Seed Grant launches a new interdisciplinary research technique!
A Stanford Bio-X seed grant helped launch a new interdisciplinary research technique: Drs. Polly Fordyce, Assistant Professor of Genetics & Bioengineering and Co-Director of the Stanford Microfluidics Foundry, and Martha Cyert, the Dr. Nancy Chang Professor, share how!
-
A discovery about a neural circuit located deep in the brains of female mice may give scientists a map to learn more about female human brains
November 14, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A discovery about how a neural circuit located deep in the brains of female mice changes in response to estrogen could offer insight into human brains. The discovery, by 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. -
RFP LIVE! Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowships @ Stanford Bio-X funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation
November 5, 2019
RFP LIVE NOW: the Stanford Bio-X Program and the Novo Nordisk Foundation have opened its call for applications for the Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowships @ Stanford Bio-X! -
Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowships @ Stanford Bio-X funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation
October 17, 2019
Coming live soon: the Stanford Bio-X Program and the Novo Nordisk Foundation will be announcing our next call for applications for the Visiting Scholar or Visiting Postdoc Fellowships @ Stanford Bio-X! -
Stanford Bio-X CryoEM Workshop
Join us for the upcoming Stanford Bio-X CryoEM Workshop September 24-25, 2019! This workshop will feature talks from numerous faculty, as well as a scientific poster session. Please register.
-
Apply for the 2020 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program!
September 23, 2019
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 2020. -
Brain tumors form synapses with healthy neurons
September 18, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Michelle Monje and Robert Malenka, Stanford Bio-X Genentech Postdoctoral Fellow Anna Geraghty, and Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant Lydia Tam have found that high-grade gliomas wire themselves into the healthy brain, receiving and interpreting electrical signals from normal neurons. Their work is featured on the cover of Nature. -
Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program Symposium - August 2019
Join us for the upcoming Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grants Program Symposium on August 29, 2019! This symposium will feature talks from numerous faculty, as well as a scientific poster session.
-
Researchers discover gel reduces scar tissue after surgery in animals
August 7, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Applying a gel to internal tissues of animals after cardiac surgery significantly limits the formation of adhesions, a problematic form of scar tissue, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Joseph Woo and Eric Appel, first author Stanford Bio-X Fellow Lyndsay Stapleton, and co-authors Stanford Bio-X and Novo Nordisk Foundation Visiting Scholar Anton Smith and Travel Award recipient Anthony Yu have found. -
Stanford researchers use microfluidics to reveal enzyme properties in unprecedented detail
June 27, 2019
For years, researchers studied key enzymes in largely piecemeal fashion. Now, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Polly Fordyce and Dan Herschlag are using new techniques to explore previously inaccessible aspects of the molecules that make life happen. -
Radiation-free stem cell transplants, gene therapy may be within reach
May 29, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Hiromitsu Nakauchi and Kyle Loh and their colleagues may have cracked the code to doing stem cell transplants and gene therapy without radiation and chemotherapy. -
Mast cells crucial to causing osteoarthritis
May 14, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Blocking the development of mast cells or the activity of a cartilage-degrading enzyme they produce secrete mice from osteoarthritis in a study from Stanford Bio-X affiliates Bill Robinson, Stephen Galli, Nicholas Giori, Stuart Goodman, and Constance Chu. -
Extreme cold could help Stanford researchers reveal herpesvirus infection
May 13, 2019 - Stanford News
Researchers don’t know how viruses like those that cause chicken pox infect cells. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Ann Arvin and Wah Chiu, supported by a Bio-X Seed Grant, are using a super-cold form of electron microscopy to find out. -
Blocking protein curbs memory loss in old mice
May 13, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliates Tony Wyss-Coray, Eugene Butcher, Stephen Quake, and Marion Buckwalter, Bio-X Fellow Andrew Yang, and Bio-X USRP participant Taylor Merkel found that impeding a specific protein enabled old mice to perform better on memory tests. -
New research links brain injury from low oxygen to specific cells
May 6, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Anca Pasca, Sergiu Pasca, and Theo Palmer find that low oxygen levels during brain development may cause particular cells to differentiate too soon. Their work is featured on the May 2019 cover of Nature Medicine. -
New computational tool enables powerful molecular analysis
May 6, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliates Aaron Newman, Ash Alizadeh, Maximilian Diehn and Andrew Gentles, partly supported by a Bio-X Seed Grant, have developed a computational platform for analyzing the molecular behavior of individual cells in tissue samples. -
Hormone reduces social impairment in kids with autism
May 1, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In a study of 30 children with autism, Stanford Bio-X affiliates Karen Parker, Antonio Hardan, and Joseph Garner found that vasopressin improved social skills more than a placebo, suggesting that the hormone may treat core features of the disorder. -
Genetic roots of psychiatric disorders clearer due to improved techniques
April 30, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Laramie Duncan explains that genome-wide association studies of psychiatric disorders are far more reliable than older, smaller genetic studies. -
Biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome identified
April 29, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Ron Davis and James Harris devised a blood-based test that accurately identified people with chronic fatigue syndrome, a new study reports. -
New approach by Stanford researchers could lead to a lifetime flu vaccine
April 26, 2019 - Stanford News
So far scientists haven’t managed to make a vaccine that protects against all strains of flu. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Peter Kim has developed new approach could end that ritual and protect against deadly pandemic flu. -
Stanford doctors, materials scientists hope a blood test will encourage more colon cancer screenings
April 19, 2019 - Stanford News
A blood test to detect colorectal cancer being developed by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Shan Wang could help improve screening rates. -
Which blood-based method works best to detect TB?
April 23, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members Purvesh Khatri, Niaz Banaei, and Juan Santiago are working toward a new type of tuberculosis diagnostic that utilizes blood samples. -
Stanford researchers work to unlock flatworms' regenerative powers
April 22, 2019 - Stanford News
No one knows exactly how flatworms can rebuild their entire bodies from the tiniest sliver. Supported by a Stanford Bio-X Seed Grant, affiliated faculty Bo Wang, Nicholas Melosh, and Andrew Fire are building new tools to study the worms’ regeneration. -
Some viruses help protect harmful bacteria in CF patients
April 17, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Paul Bollyky, Bio-X Fellow Jolien Sweere, and Undergraduate Summer Research Program participant Michelle have shown that some viruses sequester antibiotics in CF patients' lungs, possibly helping bacterial infections. -
Stanford experiment finds humans beat algorithms at image compression
March 25, 2019 - Stanford News
Three high schoolers working under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Tsachy Weissman found that, when file size is restricted, humans are better at representing images than traditional algorithms. -
Computer vision technology could aid ICU care by spotting movement
March 25, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford researchers including Bio-X affiliate Fei-Fei Li are tackling the problem of post-intensive care syndrome with artificial intelligence technology that detects patient mobility. -
Mystery novel and dream spur key scientific insight into heart defect
March 20, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In 2014, after months of not getting expected results, Stanford Bio-X founding member, first Director, and affiliated faculty James Spudich fell asleep and had a dream that would change the thinking about what causes a common and often lethal heart defect. -
Modified immune cells issue alert when detecting cancer in mice
March 18, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Sam Gambhir and Bio-X Fellows Amin Aalipour and Gunsagar Gulati were able to engineer immune cells known as macrophages to detect and flag cancer in mice, which could be used for early cancer diagnostics.