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.
April 18, 2018 - Stanford News
Millions are slowly losing their vision to diseases of the retina like age-related macular degeneration. A device from Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty member Daniel Palanker, supported by a Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, may help some of them see again.
February 15, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliate Jason Andrews and his colleagues found that a screening test for tuberculosis was a good predictor of whether children infected with the bacteria would become sick.
February 15, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford researchers under Bio-X affiliates Joseph Wu, Alice Fan, and Sean Wu have developed a test that may help screen for cardiotoxicity in new chemotherapy drugs.
February 14, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Heart patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators often undergo a series of health care procedures when they receive shocks from the devices, regardless of whether the shocks are necessary, Bio-X affiliate Mintu Turakhia says.
February 13, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Gregory Scherrer, Karl Deisseroth, Scott Delp, Robert Malenka, and Liqun Luo identify a neural circuit in the brain that helps explain how the body uses enkephalins, which have potent painkilling properties.
February 13, 2017 - Stanford News
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate Gordon Wetzstein are developing a type of virtual reality display that adapts to differences in how we see, which could reduce headaches or nausea caused by existing VR headsets.
February 10, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate Gregory Barsh found that a gene that normally causes pale belly fur has been co-opted to help create a pattern of light and dark stripes on the backs of both striped mice and on distantly-related chipmunks.
February 9, 2017 - Stanford News
The world is changing too fast for nature to keep up. Conservation scholars including Bio-X affiliate Elizabeth Hadly agree that strategies need to consider not only how ecosystems operated in recent years, but also thousands and millions of years ago.
February 8, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Denise Monack and her colleagues have figured out how ST313, a mutant strain of Salmonella, spreads beyond the gut.
February 7, 2017 - Stanford News
A new low-cost, high-performance battery developed under Bio-X affiliate Hongjie Dai could provide an inexpensive storage solution for solar power, which is abundant during the day but must be stored for use at night.
February 6, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Microfluidics, electronics and inkjet technology underlie a newly developed all-in-one biochip from Bio-X affiliates Ron Davis and James Harris that can analyze cells for research and clinical applications.
February 6, 2017 - Stanford News
With three methods of research, Bio-X affiliates Jure Leskovec and Michael Bernstein find that the situation in which an online discussion occurs influences whether people will troll more than their personal past of trolling suggests.
February 2, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Stephen Luby has been tapped to direct the health evaluation of a project to use water management strategies to potentially improve the lives of more than a billion people globally.
January 31, 2017 - Stanford Engineering
Bio-X affiliate Alison Marsden explains that computer based simulations would enable physicians to test different treatment options and provide a way to choose the best strategy for each patient.
January 26, 2017 - Stanford News
The new technique, from Bio-X affiliate Jin Hyung Lee and Bio-X Fellow Andrew Weitz, probes the neural pathways that cause Parkinson's disease tremors, and also provides a way to map and troubleshoot other circuits in the whole brain.
January 25, 2017 - Stanford News
In hopes of creating better access to medical care, Stanford researchers under Bio-X affiliate Helen Blau have trained an algorithm to diagnose skin cancer.
January 25, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Growing organs from one species in another may one day relieve transplant shortages. Researchers under Bio-X affiliate Hiromitsu Nakauchi show that islets from rat-grown mouse pancreases can reverse disease when transplanted into diabetic mice.
January 24, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
New research from Bio-X affiliates Howard Chang, Robert Tibshirani, and William Greenleaf has uncovered a new genetic phenomenon that ensures that, for some genes, one parent’s influence dominates.
January 24, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliates Connie Weyand and Jorg Goronzy have discovered that in giant cell arteritis, in which the immune system attacks the aorta, the immune response is too strong because an immune checkpoint isn’t braking hard enough.
January 23, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Desiree LaBeaud and colleagues in Kenya have devised a prevention project at multiple sites around Kenya to educate people about how to prevent mosquito breeding in local water sources.
January 19, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliates Tom Südhof and Marius Wernig have established a connection that may help explain why different genes confer differential Alzheimer’s susceptibilities.
January 19, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Effective anti-tumor activity requires a systemic immune response at the tumor site. A study from Bio-X affiliates Edgar Engleman and Garry Nolan may help clinicians pinpoint why only some cancer patients respond to immunotherapies.
January 18, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Astrocytes, star-shaped cells in the central nervous system, are essential to the survival and healthy function of brain neurons. But aberrant astrocytes may be driving neurodegenerative disorders, Bio-X affiliates Ben Barres and Marion Buckwalter find.
January 18, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In the culmination of a 10-year-long effort, researchers under Bio-X affiliate Sam Gambhir have demonstrated the first visualization of human immune cells as they track down brain tumor cells in living patients.
January 17, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The new center, which will be led by Stanford faculty including Bio-X affiliate Mintu Turakhia, aims to advance the field of digital health by enabling collaborations between faculty and industry.
January 16, 2017 - Stanford News
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate Jennifer Dionne recorded reactions at near-atomic-scale resolution, another step toward building a better battery.
January 16, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Gregory Scherrer, David Clark, and Ben Barres, including Bio-X Fellow Jasmine Dickinson, have identified the receptors to which opioids bind to produce tolerance to the drugs and increased sensitivity to pain.
January 16, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A chronic inflammatory process that occurs in some, but not all, older people may trigger cardiovascular problems, a study from Bio-X affiliates Mark Davis, Francois Haddad, Garry Nolan, and Calvin Kuo and Bio-X Fellow Gabriela Fragiadakis shows.
January 12, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
New research from Bio-X affiliates Michael Snyder and Tracey McLaughlin shows that fitness monitors and other wearable biosensors can tell when an individual’s heart rate, skin temperature and other measures are abnormal, suggesting possible illness.
January 12, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Ravindra Majeti and then postdoctoral fellow Mark Chao became the first to reset a human leukemia cell to a nearly embryonic state as an induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell.
January 11, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Michael Longaker, Geoffrey Gurtner, Philip Beachy, Fan Yang, Stuart Goodman, and Irving Weissman found that activating bone stem cells helps repair fractures in diabetic mice. Applying a protein to the fracture site enhanced healing.
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