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 12, 2015 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliated faculty and Clark Center faculty member Axel Brunger and a team of several Stanford colleagues and UCSF scientists have moved neuroscience a step forward with a close-up inspection of a brain-wide nano-recycling operation.
December 7, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Men who are infertile have a higher risk of developing a variety of other health problems, according to a new study under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Michael Eisenberg and Mark Cullen.
December 7, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Short-circuiting the need for expensive clinical trials, researchers under Bio-X affiliates Nigam Shah and Nicholas Leeper uncovered an association between androgen blockers and cognitive decline by examining patient medical records.
December 7, 2015 - Stanford Report
A tool developed by Bio-X affiliates Jennifer Cochran and Daniel Herschlag and 2011 Bio-X Bowes Fellow Sungwon Lim facilitates testing millions of mutated proteins in a matter of hours or days, speeding the search for medicines, enzymes and biosensors.
December 3, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Anne Brunet and Carlos Bustamante are using the African turquoise killifish as a model to study longevity and have provided its genetic information as a resource for the research community.
December 1, 2015 - Stanford Report
By targeting fundamental cellular machinery, the antiviral approach developed in Bio-X affiliate Judith Frydman's lab could prevent infections that affect hundreds of millions.
November 30, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty Euan Ashley and Thomas Quertermous have identified a previously unknown association between heart function and a narcolepsy-linked pathway, which could provide a promising direction for treatment research.
November 25, 2015 - Stanford Report
Scientists under Bio-X affiliate Yi Cui have discovered how to make the electrical wiring on top of solar cells nearly invisible to incoming light. The new design, which uses silicon nanopillars to hide the wires, could dramatically boost solar-cell efficiency.
November 24, 2015 - Stanford Report
Psychologist Jeanne Tsai, with contributions from Bio-X affiliate Brian Knutson, found different cultures value different positive facial expressions, and that these differences arise in deep brain circuits that can predict who people like and dislike.
November 23, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Research under Bio-X affiliated faculty Vittorio Sebastiano, Joanna Wysocka, and Wing Wong indicates that genetic residue from ancient viral infections has been repurposed to play a vital role in acquiring pluripotency.
November 23, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Research by Bio-X affiliated faculty members Paul Khavari and Jody Puglisi finds that two short, “housekeeping” RNA molecules block cancer growth by binding to an important cancer-associated protein called KRAS.
November 23, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Marcus Feldman's lab has devised a computer model that could help solve a long-standing mystery over why the introduction of new tools in prehistoric societies sometimes comes in periodic bursts.
November 23, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The nine Stanford faculty elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science include Bio-X affiliates Karlene Cimprich, Gerald Crabtree, Stephen Galli, John Huguenard, Calvin Kuo, and Thomas Rando.
November 20, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Supported by Bio-X affiliates Kevin Grimes and Daria Mochly-Rosen within the SPARK program, a Stanford musicology student sets out on a new, unexpected career path as a scientist and entrepreneurial drug developer.
November 18, 2015 - Stanford Report
Taking a cue from plants, researchers under Bio-X affiliate Paul McIntyre figure out how to use the sun's energy to combine CO2 with H2O to create benign chemical products.
November 17, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Research from Bio-X affiliates Martin Angst and Garry Nolan and 2013 Bio-X Bowes Fellow Gabriela Fragiadakis finds that blood drawn before surgery, stimulated to produce an immune response, revealed patterns predicting patient outcomes.
November 16, 2015 - Stanford Report
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate Reinhold Dauskardt made materials stronger and more flexible by slipping polystyrene molecules between layers of composites.
November 12, 2015 - Stanford Report
A gathering on big data turned the usual gender ratio of science conferences on its head: Bio-X Executive Committee member Persis Drell, and Bio-X affiliates Margot Gerritsen and Fei-Fei Li, advocate for more women in the data science field.
November 11, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Serendipity spurs the discovery, under Bio-X affiliated faculty Paul Bollyky and 2015 Stanford Bio-X SIGF Johanna Sweere, of a curious collusion between bacterial pathogens and viruses that infect them.
November 9, 2015 - Stanford Report
A new technology developed by Bio-X affiliated faculty Amin Arbabian and Butrus Khuri-Yakub has promise to safely find buried explosives and maybe spot fast-growing tumors. The technique involves the clever interplay of microwaves and ultrasound.
November 8, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty Karl Deisseroth has been awarded a $3 million Breakthrough Prize in life sciences for his pioneering work in optogenetics. Stanford Physicists Xiao-Liang Qi and Leonardo Senatore won New Horizons in Physics Prizes.
November 6, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
With the donated tissue, a Stanford team under Bio-X affiliated faculty Michelle Monje has created the first cell line and mouse model of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a deadly tumor.
October 29, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Hackers with access to a person’s genome might find out if that genome is in an international network of disease databases, Bio-X affiliate Carlos Bustamante finds.
October 28, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Podcast interview with Dean of the Stanford School of Medicine and Stanford Bio-X Executive Committee member Lloyd Minor.
October 27, 2015 - Stanford Report
Stanford's new Raw Data podcast, featuring Bio-X affiliates Michael Snyder and Sylvia Plevritis, opens a conversation about how big data and networked technologies are changing communities, the economy, politics and human behavior.
October 26, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
For most patients, treatment guidelines force clinicians to rely on educated guesswork. Advances in computation, data processing and telecommunication, including work by Bio-X affiliate Nigam Shah, may be about to change that.
October 23, 2015 - Stanford Report
Only an atom thick, graphene is a key ingredient in three Stanford projects, under faculty including Bio-X affiliate H.-S. Philip Wong, to create data storage technologies that use nanomaterials other than standard silicon.
October 23, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Irving Weissman and Kristy Red-Horse discovered, in mice, the direct progenitors to coronary artery smooth muscle cells, the important component that encases the artery and gives it strength.
October 21, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The team, under Bio-X affiliates Sam Gambhir, Jianghong Rao, and Frederick Chin, capitalized on the fact that cancer cells require vast stores of cellular building blocks.
October 20, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford faculty who received awards include Bio-X affiliates Manish Butte, Ronald Dalman, David Camarillo, Paul Wang, François Haddad, Holden Maecker, Mark Davis, David Stevens, Philip Tsao, and Sanjay Malhotra.
October 16, 2015
The 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 2016.
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