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.
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.
April 6, 2015 - Stanford Report
The new aluminum-ion battery developed by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Hongjie Dai could replace many of the lithium-ion and alkaline batteries in wide use today.
April 2, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new study by Bio-X affiliated faculty members Marius Wernig and Garry Nolan shows that mature cells enter a unique transition state when being reprogrammed to iPS cells.
April 1, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Deborah Gordon presents a model suggesting that the human immune system and ants use similar distributed defense strategies.
April 1, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new study by Bio-X affiliated faculty members Marius Wernig and Garry Nolan shows that mature cells enter a unique transition state when being reprogrammed to iPS cells.
March 30, 2015 - Stanford Report
Stanford biologist and Bio-X affiliated faculty member Deborah M. Gordon, who sent ants to the International Space Station in January 2014, promotes a teacher-tested lesson plan to help students direct their energy toward studying ants.
March 30, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The method is analogous to analyzing a smoothie to find what fruits went into making it, researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Ash Alizadeh and Maximilian Diehn say.
March 26, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
With cancer on the rise in the developing world, Stanford oncologist and Bio-X affiliated faculty member Ami Bhatt and her colleagues have unveiled an interactive map designed to connect international experts in cancer care and research.
March 26, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The grant, awarded to Bio-X affiliated faculty member Matthew Porteus, will allow the researcher to pursue a stem-cell-based gene therapy approach to correcting a form of severe combined immunodeficiency in humans.
March 23, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
An international team led by Stanford researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Thomas Quertermous has discovered a gene associated with insulin resistance, a condition in which the body doesn’t use insulin properly.
March 23, 2015 - Stanford Report
A team lead by Bio-X affiliated faculty member David Lentink has identified the design qualities that make bird wings famously efficient over a wide range of flight styles.
March 18, 2015 - Stanford Report
A computer model of brain function, developed under Bio-X affiliates Bill Newsome, Kwabena Boahen, and Tirin Moore, helps explain a 20-year-old finding that the way a single noisy neuron fires in the brain can predict an animal's decisions.
March 18, 2015 - Stanford Report
Stanford biology Professor and Bio-X affiliated faculty member Russell Fernald and Bio-X Bowes Fellow Ryan York have shown how the rapid evolution of other physical traits has played a role in determined mating behaviors in African cichlid fish.
March 16, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Ravindra Majeti found a method that can force dangerous leukemia cells to mature into harmless immune cells.
March 16, 2015 - Stanford Report
Stanford bioengineers under Bio-X affiliated faculty member KC Huang have created a time-lapse video that shows this process of how bacteria essentially go undercover in ways that might trick the human immune system.
March 11, 2015 - Stanford Report
In Bio-X affiliated faculty member Manu Prakash's lab, years of research satisfy a graduate student's curiosity about the molecular minuet he observed among drops of ordinary food coloring.
March 9, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A newly developed genetic technique enabled researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Carlos Bustamante to sequence DNA from the teeth of 300-year-old skeletons, helping to pinpoint where in Africa three slaves had likely lived before being captured.
March 9, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Basal cell carcinomas develop mutations in a protein on the Hedgehog pathway to evade a common drug therapy. Bio-X affiliated faculty members Anthony Oro and Jean Tang are targeting another portion of the pathway, may be an alternative treatment.
March 9, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A free iPhone app, launched by Bio-X affiliated faculty Michael McConnell and Euan Ashley, allows users to contribute to a study of human heart health while learning about the health of their own hearts.
March 4, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
With help from Bio-X affiliated faculty members Chaitan Khosla and Daria Mochly-Rosen, blocking the expression of a gene that inadvertently promotes cancer growth could help prevent the growth of many types of tumors.
March 4, 2015 - Stanford Report
A study by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jonathan Payne refutes a hypothesis by the famed evolutionary biologist Stephen J. Gould.
February 25, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliated faculty members Gavin Sherlock, Dmitri Petrov, and Daniel Fisher, partially supported by a 2012 Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, have developed a technique for understanding how cancer cells evolve or how a virus spreads and changes.
February 23, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Sam Gambhir's group finds that tiny DNA rings, carrying instructions for making a blood-detectable biomarker, can enter both healthy cells and cancer cells. But only cancer cells follow the recipe to make the biomarker.
February 23, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Scientists under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Daria Mochly-Rosen have shown that small molecules can “hijack” enzyme function in mice, suggesting a possible preventive mechanism for alcohol-related cancers in an at-risk population.
February 19, 2015 - Stanford Report
New Stanford research under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Jonathan Payne shows that animals tend to evolve toward larger body sizes over time. Over the past 542 million years, the mean size of marine animals has increased 150-fold.
February 19, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Research led by Bio-X affiliated faculty members David Camarillo, Jaime Lopez, and Gerald Grant, with 2014 Bio-X Bowes Fellow Lyndia Wu and 2010 Bio-X Bowes Fellow Michael Yip, could eventually lead to better concussion detection and prevention.
February 19, 2015 - Stanford Report
Stanford ChEM-H scientists, including Bio-X affiliated faculty member Chaitan Khosla, are helping to develop a novel cancer therapy based on a new finding of a protein that inadvertently promotes cancer growth.
February 18, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Yi Cui's group has turned a material commonly used in surgical gloves into a low-cost, highly efficient air filter. It could be used to improve facemasks and window screens, and maybe even scrub exhaust from power plants.
February 18, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new reference map developed by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Anshul Kundaje will help interpret the genetic basis for disease.
February 12, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Anne Brunet and Steven Artandi disabled aging-associated genes in the short-lived African killifish, including one for an enzyme called telomerase, whose absence caused humanlike disease in the animal.
February 12, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate Tobias Meyer have developed a search engine to help identify human gene function by comparing human genes to nonhuman genes.
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