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.
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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. -
Stanford researchers create hydrogen fuel from seawater
March 18, 2019 - Stanford News
Splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen presents an alternative to fossil fuels, but purified water is a precious resource. A team under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Hongjie Dai has now developed a way to harness seawater for chemical energy. -
A cell’s “self-destruct” function could yield new therapies
March 18, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Scientists studying cell death, including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Jan Carette and Scott Dixon, are working to understand how the body protects itself from disease and use that information to form better treatments. -
Stanford researchers measure near-perfect performance in low-cost semiconductors
March 15, 2019 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Jennifer Dionne redefines what it means for low-cost semiconductors, called quantum dots, to be near-perfect and meet quality standards. -
Drug could alleviate side effects of chemo for breast cancer patients
March 14, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Joseph Wu have found a way to predict who will suffer heart problems from a common breast-cancer drug, as well as identified an FDA-approved medication that could mitigate those side effects. -
Concussion is a big, vague term and we need to start breaking it down
March 14, 2019 - Stanford Engineering
Through biometric tracking, simulated modeling and medical imaging, Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty David Camarillo, Michael Zeineh and Gerald Grant and Stanford Bio-X Fellow Fidel Hernandez show how hits to the side of the head could cause concussions. -
Molecular data can predict breast cancer recurrence
March 13, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Some breast cancers return decades later. Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Christina Curtis, joined by collaborators at other institutions, has subcategorized tumors to predict recurrence, guide treatment decisions and improve drug development. -
With metabolic profiles of children, center hopes to head off disease early
March 12, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Michael Snyder, Karl Sylvester, David Stevenson and Tina Cowan plan to study thousands of metabolites in babies, children and pregnant women to understand the origins of disease. -
Immune profile two days after stroke predicts dementia a year later
March 12, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Marion Buckwalter, Nima Aghaeepour, Martin Angst, and Maarten Lansberg have found that transient changes in circulating immune cell types can predict the likelihood of dementia one year after a stroke. -
Treating parasite infections during pregnancy thought to boost babies’ immune responses
March 11, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Desiree LaBeaud finds that pneumonia vaccines seem to work better if their mothers are treated for parasitic infections during pregnancy. -
A better brick
March 11, 2019 - Stanford Earth Matters
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Stephen Luby is on a quest to save lives by cleaning up production of a ubiquitous building material. -
Stanford Bio-X Fellow Yonatan Winetraub shoots for the moon
March 7, 2019 - Stanford News
A February 21 launch was the culmination of years of work by Stanford Bio-X Fellow Yonatan Winetraub’s nonprofit SpaceIL, which he co-founded in 2011. -
Can we address both chronic pain and the opioid crisis? Yes, pain doctors say
March 6, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Sean Mackey and other researchers say we can curb the prescription opioid crisis, while treating pain, by using a variety of tactics. -
Stanford researchers develop a smartphone app to simultaneously treat and track autism
March 6, 2019 - Stanford News
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Dennis Wall's group is working on a smartphone app that could help diagnose autism in minutes – and provide ongoing therapy as well. -
Anti-CD47 antibody trial in advanced cancers shows promise
March 5, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A phase 1 clinical trial by Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Irv Weissman, Mark Pegram, and Ravindra Majeti, of an antibody against the “don‘t eat me’ signal on cancer cells, appears safe and well-tolerated by patients with advanced cancers. -
A Stanford-led team unveils the prototype for a computer-on-a-chip
February 19, 2019 - Stanford News
Computers have shrunk, but engineers want to cram the features of a computer into a single chip that they could install anywhere. A team under Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Subhasish Mitra and H.-S. Philip Wong has developed the prototype. -
More primary care physicians leads to longer life spans
February 18, 2019 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Life expectancy grows when there are more primary care physicians in the field, yet their numbers are shrinking, finds a study led by researchers including Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Sanjay Basu. -
New research shows that species evolve ways to backup life’s machinery
February 14, 2019 - Stanford Engineering
A new analysis from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty Jure Leskovec and Marcus Feldman reveals that every species from bacteria to primates has developed ways to bypass breakdowns in the networks of proteins vital to sustaining life. -
Failure to take statins leads to higher mortality
February 14, 2019 - Stanford Medicine Scope
More than a third of patients who are prescribed statins fail to take them regularly, and they are dying at higher rates as a result, according to research from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Joshua Knowles. -
Computer vs. patient: Fighting for residents’ attention
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.