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Published in Innovation News
29 Jan 2015

Stanford launches major effort to expedite vaccine discovery with $50 million grant

Stanford University today announced that it has received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate efforts in vaccine development. The $50 million grant over 10 years will build on existing technology developed at Stanford and housed in the Human Immune Monitoring Core, and will establish the Stanford Human Systems Immunology Center. The center aims to better understand how the immune system can be harnessed to develop vaccines for the world's most deadly infectious diseases.

Neurons from the amygdala in this mouse brain slice have been stained so that researchers could measure the activity of the neurons. (Image credit: Benjamin Grewe)

Published in Innovation News
22 Mar 2017

Stanford scientists study Pavlovian conditioning in neural networks

By looking at groups of neurons in the emotional center of the brain, researchers now understand how neural networks in the brain form associations, like those made famous by Ivan Pavlov.

The Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology unites academic, government and industrial researchers in an effort to spur the already booming bio-economy by providing useful definitions of the equivalent of weights and measures for the molecular products and processes made possible by genomics and genetic engineering.

Published in Innovation News
20 May 2016

Stanford-NIST collaboration aims to give the bio-economy a big boost by measuring tiny things

Applications and Discovery of Plant Chemistry. (Image credit: Sattely Lab)

Published in Innovation News
10 Sep 2015

Stanford scientists produce cancer drug from rare plant in lab to benefit human health

Stanford scientists produced a common cancer drug – previously only available from an endangered plant – in a common laboratory plant. This work could lead to a more stable supply of the drug and allow scientists to manipulate that drug to make it even safer and more effective.

3D CLARITY image shows neural connections from the prefrontal cortex across an entire transparent mouse brain. (Image credit: Li Ye and Karl Deisseroth)

Published in Innovation News
26 May 2016

Stanford research shows that different brain cells process positive and negative experiences

Combining two cutting-edge techniques reveals that neurons in the prefrontal cortex are built to respond to reward or aversion, a finding with implications for treating mental illness and addictions.

Composite image of the gravitational lens SDP.81 showing the distorted image of the more distant galaxy (red arcs) and the nearby lensing galaxy (blue center object). By analyzing the distortions in the ring, astronomers have determined that a dark dwarf galaxy (data indicated by white dot near left lower arc segment) is lurking nearly 4 billion light-years away. (Image credit: Y. Hezaveh; ALMA)

Published in Innovation News
14 Apr 2016

Stanford physicists help discover hidden dwarf dark galaxy

The discovery supports a powerful tool for discovering galaxies that are otherwise too distant to observe, and could lead to advances that improve our understanding of dark matter.

This mouse’s own body transmits energy to an implantable device that delivers light to stimulate leg nerves in a Stanford optogenetics project. (Image credit: Austin Yee)

Published in Innovation News
17 Aug 2015

Stanford engineers develop a wireless, fully implantable device to stimulate nerves in mice

A miniature device that combines optogenetics – using light to control the activity of the brain – with a newly developed technique for wirelessly powering implanted devices is the first fully internal method of delivering optogenetics. The blue glowing device the size of a peppercorn can activate neurons of the brain, spinal cord or limbs in mice and is powered wirelessly using the mouse's own body to transfer energy. Represents collaboration PI and Post Docs, multi-discipline, Known4 Labs.

A fruit fly hangs unharmed at the end of the robot's suction tube. The robot uses machine vision to inspect and analyze the captured fly. (Photo: L.A. Cicero/Stanford News)

Published in Innovation News
25 May 2015

Dexterous robotic manipulation of alert adult Drosophila for high-content experimentation

A new lab robot is an example of how clever robotics might speed research and open new fields of study. Stanford News reports on a team of bioengineering scientists that have created a robot with excellent "hand-eye coordination" that can visually inspect active flies and carry out behavioral experiments.