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.
May 8, 2017 - Stanford News
With the publication of his latest book, Bio-X affiliate Robert Sapolsky tackles the best and worst of human behavior and the nature of justice in the absence of free will.
May 8, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford scientists including Bio-X affiliate Dennis Wall have launched a crowdsourcing project to pinpoint areas across the globe that have few autism experts, leading to delayed care for kids who live there, and to find ways to fill them.
May 4, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliates Philip Beachy and Michael Clarke have discovered a new way that the GLI2 gene impacts breast development: they found that GLI2 activity helps control mammary stem cells in mice.
May 3, 2017 - Stanford News
Faculty, staff and students Bio-X affiliates Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and Dan Schwartz, are pushing to embrace and pursue the study of games and interactive media.
May 3, 2017 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Erin Mordecai finds that the ideal temperature for the spread of mosquito-born diseases is 29 degrees C, which could help predict disease outbreaks.
May 3, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Liver disease expert, leading anti-hepatitis campaigner, and Bio-X affiliate Samuel So recently discussed what it will take to rub out viral hepatitis, which causes more than 20,000 U.S. deaths annually.
May 1, 2017 - Stanford News
A semiconductor developed by researchers under Bio-X affiliate Zhenan Bao, including 2013 Bio-X Fellow Allister McGuire, is as flexible as skin and easily degradable.
April 26, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Sergiu Pasca, John Huguenard, Joachim Hallmayer, Jonathan Bernstein, and Lars Steinmetz fused two stem-cell-derived neural spheroids and watched as the two sets of neurons migrated and connected.
April 26, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Euan Ashley is one of the principal investigators at the Stanford site of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN), a national network created to diagnose very rare diseases.
April 24, 2017 - Stanford News
A new four-step “framework” from researchers including Bio-X affiliate Bala Rajaratnam aims to test the contribution of climate change to record-setting extreme weather events.
April 24, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
New research from Bio-X affiliates Michelle Monje and Joanna Wysocka suggests two potential drug targets for the pediatric brain tumor diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma.
April 20, 2017 - Stanford News
In research by Bio-X affiliate Elizabeth Hadly, new genetic evidence suggests that early mammals had good night-time vision, adding to fossil and behavioral studies.
April 20, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Justin Sonnenburg has been able to visualize multiple bacterial strains in lab mice’s gut by making them express unique combinations of fluorescent proteins.
April 19, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Umbilical cord blood from human newborns boosted old mice’s brain function and performance, shows research from Bio-X affiliates Tony Wyss-Coray and Martin Angst.
April 19, 2017 - Stanford News
Stanford undergrads including 2016 Bio-X USRP participant Zachary Rosenthal win a national prize for their work on an antibiotic to combat multidrug-resistant bacteria.
April 18, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Pretreatment with a stem-cell-activating protein significantly enhances healing in mice, Bio-X affiliate Thomas Rando says. The approach could eventually help people going into surgery or combat heal better from injuries they sustain.
April 17, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A common signaling pathway unites diverse fibrotic diseases in humans, Bio-X affiliates Gerlinde Wernig, Irv Weissman, and Garry Nolan and 2014 USRP participant Camille Van Neste find. An antibody called anti-CD47 reverses fibrosis in mice.
April 17, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A wearable sensor developed by Stanford researchers under Bio-X affiliate Ron Davis can diagnose diseases by measuring molecular constituents of sweat, such as chloride ions and glucose.
April 13, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Ben Barres has come up with a tool that will allow researchers to study the cytoskeleton with much greater precision than has previously been possible.
April 13, 2017 - Stanford News
Cells must continually pass molecules in and out to sustain life. Supported by a Seed Grant, Bio-X affiliates Ron Dror and Liang Feng have developed a computer algorithm to capture how these crucial proteins work.
April 12, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A set of experiments from Bio-X affiliate Aaron Gitler reveals that suppressing a protein called ataxin 2 dramatically extends survival and improves motor function in a mouse model of ALS.
April 11, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliates Irv Weissman, Michael Clarke, and Nicholas Leeper have discovered that cancer cells increase production of CD47, a protein protecting them from the immune system, by recruiting molecular pathways usually used for inflammatory processes.
April 10, 2017 - Stanford News
Researchers in Bio-X affiliate David Lentink's lab developed a new way to record wing shape during bird flight in 3D. This high-resolution, high-speed, automated reconstruction method could be applied to any studies of movement.
April 6, 2017 - Stanford News
Dean Pamela Matson explains why sustainability efforts today are critical to meet the needs of people now and over the long term, and how Stanford has a leadership role.
April 6, 2017 - Stanford News
Neuroscientists’ discovery of grid cells was hailed as a major discovery. But new results from Bio-X affiliates Lisa Giocomo and Surya Ganguli and Bio-X Honorary Fellow Niru Maheswaranathan, supported by a Seed Grant, suggest the system is more complicated than anyone had guessed.
April 5, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Roundworms storing monounsaturated fats in their guts live longer, according to Bio-X affiliate Anne Brunet. Their study links epigenetic regulation with fat metabolism, and may have implications for many species.
April 5, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers including Bio-X affiliate Bruce Buckingham are testing easier ways for younger children with Type 1 diabetes to get the doses of insulin they need.
April 5, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A regulatory protein blocks the expression of non-neuronal genes in nerve cells, find Bio-X affiliates Marius Wernig, Thomas Südhof, and Lars Steinmetz, and Travel Awardee Cheen Euong Ang, suggesting there are many master regulators for cell types.
April 3, 2017 - Stanford News
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate Vijay Pande, including 2015 USRP participant Han Altae-Tran, show how an advanced form of machine learning that works off small amounts of data can be used to solve problems in drug discovery.
April 3, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers including Bio-X affiliates Jürgen Willmann, Sam Gambhir, and Amelie Lutz have developed tiny bubbles that bind to malignant tumors, making them visible to ultrasound imaging.
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