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.
February 10, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new model by Bio-X affiliate Christina Curtis's group of how colon tumors grow emphasizes the importance of time and the early origin of differences among tumors.
February 3, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Seung Kim, including Bio-X Bowes Fellow Ron Alfa, have identified a hormone that decreases insulin production during starvation in fruit flies and humans.
February 2, 2015 - Stanford Report
2013 and 2011 Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow Richie Sapp was part of a team under Bio-X Director Carla Shatz whose research could make it easier for adults to learn and possibly heal after brain injuries.
January 30, 2015 - Stanford Report
Differences in connectivity in the brain predict face blindness in adults, say Stanford neuroscientists under Bio-X affiliated faculty Kalanit Grill-Spector and Brian Wandell.
January 26, 2015 - Stanford Report
By selectively manipulating how DNA issues biological commands, Stanford bioengineers under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Lei Stanley Qi have developed a tool that could prove useful in future gene therapies.
January 23, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A search for medical needs in eye clinics led a Stanford Biodesign fellow, mentored by Bio-X affiliated faculty members Mark Blumenkranz and Daniel Palanker, to develop an implantable neurostimulator that painlessly increases natural tear production.
January 23, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Members of teams created through the Stanford Neurosciences Institute's Big Ideas in Neuroscience initiative, including Bio-X affiliated faculty members Amit Etkin, Marion Buckwalter, Anne Brunet and Tony Wyss-Coray, spoke at the World Economic Forum.
January 22, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Helen Blau, John Cooke, and Juan Santiago, including 2010 Bio-X Skippy Frank Fellow Jennifer Brady, delivered a modified RNA that encodes a telomere-extending protein to cultured human cells.
January 16, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Steve Palumbi shows that the industrialization of the oceans mirrors the early stages of activities that triggered mass extinctions on land.
January 15, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Gene-sequencing technologies have focused immunologists’ attention on the role of genes in diseases, but research by Bio-X affiliated faculty members Mark Davis, Atul Butte, and Holden Maecker suggest that the environment is an even greater factor.
January 15, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The discovery, under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Michael Longaker, Irv Weissman, and Calvin Kuo, of a skeletal stem cell in mice sets the stage for new methods to grow cartilage and bone for use in medical therapies.
January 15, 2015 - Stanford Report
A new device invented by Bio-X affiliated faculty member David Lentink will answer long-held questions about the forces birds generate while flying, and could lead to the development of innovative, efficient unmanned aerial vehicles.
January 14, 2015
The Bio-X Program would like to announce the 10th call for applications for the Undergraduate Summer Research Program with funding available starting in the summer of 2015.
January 12, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty member Vijay Pande has partnered with Sony to bring his Folding@home project to smartphones, which could provide insight into diseases.
January 9, 2015
The Stanford Bio-X Leadership Council is pleased to announce the 12th annual competition for Stanford Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowships
January 6, 2015 - Stanford Report
Bio-X affiliated faculty member, 2004 Bio-X Bowes Fellow, and 2012 IIP Seed Grant awardee David Camarillo and 2013 Bio-X Honorary Fellow Fidel Hernandez have measured the forces imparted on the brain in greater detail than ever before.
January 2, 2015 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Anthony Ricci, Alan Cheng, Daria Mochly-Rosen, and Michael Hsieh, a study in mice has found that a commonly used antibiotic can be modified to eliminate the risk that it will cause hearing loss.
December 30, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Some cases of autism may be caused by a dysfunctional corpus callosum, resulting in poor communication between brain hemispheres, a new study suggests.
December 22, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Geoffrey Gurtner knew that a drug administered to remove iron from the blood could also overcome diabetic interference with blood vessel formation, but finding the right way to deliver it was the challenge.
December 19, 2014 - Stanford Report
Research by Bio-X affiliated faculty member Steven Boxer and 2012 Bio-X SIGF Fellow Stephen Fried, has found that the electrostatic field within an enzyme accounts for the lion's share of its success.
December 17, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
In a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, muscle stem cells express connective-tissue genes associated with fibrosis and muscle weakness, according to a new study under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Thomas Rando.
December 10, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new study, under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Michael Eisenberg, Mark Cullen, and Barry Behr, of men who were evaluated for the cause of their infertility finds relationships between deficiencies in their semen and other health problems.
December 2, 2014 - Stanford Report
Using a new algorithm, engineers under Bio-X affiliated faculty Jelena Vuckovic can design and build a prism-like silicon structure that can bend light at right angles.
November 26, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
The discovery of a new mechanism of DNA damage under Bio-X affiliated faculty Karlene Cimprich could offer insights into cancer and neurodegenerative disease.
November 26, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliated faculty members Anthony Oro, Marius Wernig, and Mark Kay were able to correct a collagen defect — the source of a blistering skin disease — in stem cells made from patients.
November 25, 2014 - Stanford Report
A team under Bio-X affiliated faculty Amit Etkin and Stephen Baccus has convened to map the origins of mental illnesses in the brain and develop noninvasive treatments.
November 21, 2014 - Stanford Report
Stanford engineers under Bio-X affiliated faculty member Mark Cutkosky have designed a controllable adhesive system that can stick to glass and support a person's weight.
November 20, 2014 - Stanford Report
A team under Bio-X affiliated faculty Brian Wandell and Kalanit Grill-Spector, including Bio-X Travel Awardee Jason Yeatman, rediscovered a disputed brain pathway in the basement of Lane Medical Library.
November 20, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford researchers including Bio-X affiliated faculty Irving Weissman find that genetic differences in mitochondria contained in egg cells used in a process known as nuclear transfer can prompt rejection by the immune system in mice.
November 19, 2014 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Research by Bio-X affiliated faculty Michael Snyder comparing human and mouse genomes reveals both shared principles and differences in how genes are regulated.
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