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Innovations, insights, and stories from the land of Stanford Bioengineering - follow along! 💫
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Stanford BioE ❤️🌲
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Bioengineering: Where life sciences and engineering meet
YouTube video by Stanford University School of Engineering
https://youtu.be/VmHBADXeCy8?si=QwOEtS2MRtc3lvPn
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Polly Fordyce
3 months ago
Have you ever wanted to do single-molecule biophysics in high-throughput?
@matt-dejong.bsky.social
(amazing joint grad student with
@dunnlab.bsky.social
) invented a way & measured >100,000 single molecules across 241 different sequences. (1/3)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
add a skeleton here at some point
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Science Friday
12 months ago
Manu Prakash
@prakashlab.bsky.social
hasn’t met an organism he didn’t like, so he’s planning to see every creature on Earth. How? Find out in Ep. 5 of “The Leap" with
@hypothesisfund.bsky.social
. 🎧 Listen here:
buff.ly/ZGtlvOO
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Stanford Magazine highlights Bioengineering's Todd Coleman and his work with Julia Kaltschmidt, creating maps of the "gut's second brain" (the enteric nervous system) and the connection it has with essential processes in the body. 📸: Misha Gravenor.
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3 months ago
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Jennifer Brophy is leading advancements in synthetic biology to enhance plants’ natural defenses against pests, such as insects.
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@rbaltman.bsky.social
and colleagues in
@stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
publish a new study recommends maintaining open access for most scientific data with narrow controls for high-risk pathogen data in Science Magazine
@science.org
. Full article:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
3 months ago
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Stanford Department of Medicine
3 months ago
🎧 ICYMI: Mark Skylar-Scott joins #StanDOM's
@euanashley.bsky.social
#StanDOM
to discuss what it will really take to bioprint living tissues, & why solving vascularization (the blood vessel network) is essential before engineered organs can become reality.
https://bit.ly/43LGRZv
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Researchers in the Prakash lab have developed a robotic device, called Octopi, that automatically diagnoses malaria in blood smears. The researchers believe it could save countless lives through earlier and more accurate diagnosis. Read more here:
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3 months ago
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Nature
3 months ago
Happy 30th birthday, Pokémon! Since 1996, the Japanese media sensation has inspired generations of researchers in fields as diverse as evolution, biodiversity and research integrity.
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Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science
The Japanese media sensation has inspired generations of researchers in fields as diverse as evolution, biodiversity and research integrity.
https://go.nature.com/4bcjZ9w
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Best view on campus? Even the hawks agree. 🦅 Shriram Center for Bioengineering and Chemical engineering PC: Jan Hansen
6 months ago
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Emily R. Trunnell, Ph.D.
6 months ago
In this preprint,
@stanford.edu
scientists present Hybprinter, a 3D hybrid
#bioprinting
platform that combines soft hydrogels with rigid biomaterials in a single, continuous process.
@bioe-stanford.bsky.social
@stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
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Stanford Bioengineering’s Hill-Maini Lab launches Chef-in-Residence program bringing in a two-Michelin-star chef into the lab to imagine a more sustainable food future.
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A Taste of the Future: Stanford Bioengineering’s Chef-in-Residence Program
A first-of-its-kind collaboration, the Hill-Maini Lab hosts two-Michelin-star chef to explore how creativity, technology, and taste help shape a more sustainable future for food.
https://bioengineering.stanford.edu/news/taste-future-stanford-bioengineerings-chef-residence-program
6 months ago
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One of the best parts of Stanford BioE is our incredible students — and Sydney Barta is no exception. 🌟
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Fast on the track, focused in the lab
Combining Paralympic experience with research at Stanford’s Human Performance Lab, Sydney Barta is pursuing a career as an orthopedic surgeon for athletes with amputations.
http://bit.ly/4iotkNH
7 months ago
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Autumn glow on campus 🌲🌟
7 months ago
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Congrats to K.C. Huang on recieving the @NIH Director's Pioneer Award! With the award, Dr. Huang will create the first comprehensive atlas of small-intestinal microbes, build synthetic communities that model how they protect us from pathogens, and develop health precision tools.
8 months ago
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Sarafan ChEM-H
8 months ago
Congratulations to our Institute Scholar
@hawa-racine.bsky.social
for winning the 2026 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award!
@biophysicalsoc.bsky.social
www.biophysics.org/news-room/bi...
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🌱 Congrats to Stanford BioE Professor
@jennbrophy.bsky.social
, named a 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar!
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The 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI
Freeman Hrabowski Scholars are outstanding early career faculty who have the potential to become leaders in their research fields.
https://www.hhmi.org/programs/freeman-hrabowski-scholars/2025-scholars
8 months ago
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Siebel Scholars announced its 2026 scholarship recipients including 5 students from @bioe_stanford 🌟78 scholars were selected for their academic excellence and leadership potential. Congrats Xinyi Chen, Ananya Goyal, Ariel Hannum, Anoosha Pai S, Vivian Zhong 🎉
8 months ago
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The 2025 Stanford BioE Department Symposium was a celebration of bold science and a bright community! 🧫🧑🏻🔬🌲🖼️
8 months ago
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What a day! 🎉 The 1st Stanford Synthetic Biology Expo featured inspiring flash talks + posters from across disciplines. Thanks to all who joined and made it a success!
9 months ago
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How does @bioe_stanford professor
@rbaltman.bsky.social
use AI? In this Stanford Report Q&A, Russ Altman shares why he allows AI in class, but rejects it in recommendation letters.
news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...
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How bioengineering Professor Russ Altman uses AI
In the first Q&A of a new series, Altman explains why he permits AI in classes, rejects it for recommendation letters, and feels both cautious and optimistic about its future.
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/06/russ-altman-ai-personal-professional-use?utm_content=httpsnewsstanfordedustories202506russaltmanaipersonalprofessionaluse&utm_source=feedotter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=int-06-25-2025&mkt_tok=NjYwLVRKQy05ODQAAAGbS1JXJXBwJoYz8ac-uWeFiHfD1ZULnWzPaB-VSo-SFQgy3V5Ds__-Nb4hDw069meNYaAUj-atAXqMZAy6arBjlKaRfVdBFoGFxfajQ8k
11 months ago
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Introducing @bioe_stanford Class of 2025! 📸: Fontejon Photography
11 months ago
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VentureWell
12 months ago
📣 Biomedical engineering students—it’s your last chance to enter your novel healthcare solution into the DEBUT Challenge. Don’t miss out on a $190K prize pool! ⏰ Submit your application by tomorrow, June 18 →
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🏆 Ross Venook has been named a 2024–25 recipient of the Stanford Lecturer’s Award for Teaching & Undergraduate Education! 🎓 Ross is a Senior Lecturer with Stanford Bioengineering and Associate Director for Engineering, Stanford Biodesign.
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12 months ago
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Open Fung
12 months ago
🍄 What if mushrooms could teach us how to build better futures? In Episode 5 of Art &, Drew Endy and Open Fung co-founder, Phil Ross take us from a mushroom farm to the edge of a new design frontier—where fungi become leather, buildings breathe, and science and art grow side by side.
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Art & Synthetic Biology with Drew Endy & Phil Ross | Art &
https://artand-vpa.simplecast.com/episodes/art-synthetic-biology-with-drew-endy-phil-ross-n691fp52
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Stanford Medicine
12 months ago
Now streaming: AI in Life Sciences Discovery 💡 From protein structures to precision health, leaders from academia & industry explore how AI is transforming biomedical discovery. 🎙️ Nicolò Fusi, Brian Hie, Emma Lundberg, James Zou
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Quanta Magazine
about 1 year ago
Manu Prakash practices “recreational biology,” a scientific approach that explores life in the same playful way that puzzles probe math. “Basic science is not at the service of something, but the groundwork that is our entire society’s foundation.”
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How Paradoxical Questions and Simple Wonder Lead to Great Science | Quanta Magazine
Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-paradoxical-questions-and-simple-wonder-lead-to-great-science-20250528/
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Hawa Racine Thiam
about 1 year ago
Thank you very much
@abdourachidthiam.bsky.social
for kicking off the 2025 Stanford BioE colloquium
@bioe-stanford.bsky.social
! We had a blast learning about cellular lipid droplets and seeing all the creative ways you combine cell biology, chemistry and physics!!!
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Biosciences Area at Berkeley Lab
about 1 year ago
Researchers
@bioe-stanford.bsky.social
and in
#BioEGSB
&
@jgi.doe.gov
@berkeleylab.lbl.gov
collaborated on a high-impact approach for dissecting complex host-microbe interactions in the infant microbiome, revealing new possibilities for studying the broader microbial world.
go.lbl.gov/gut_microbes
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Bioprinting the future! 🖨️🧬 Dr. Mark Skylar-Scott & Soham Sinha demoed their cutting-edge 3D bioprinter at the Stanford School of Engineering Centennial Showcase. Thanks to
@kpixtv.bsky.social
for stopping by!
@stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
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Stanford University marks a century of scientific discoveries
Stanford University is celebrating 100 years of engineering, commemorating a century of innovation and showcasing the engineering of tomorrow.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/stanford-one-hundred-years-old/
about 1 year ago
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Gaute Einevoll
about 1 year ago
Episode #28 in
#TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast
: On whole-cell modeling of bacteria – with Markus Covert
theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn28
In 2020 a model of E. coli with 10000 equations and 19000 parameters was presented by the guest. How are such models made?
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Congrats to Assistant Professor Vayu Hill-Maini on being named a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar! 🌍🎉
about 1 year ago
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Our very own Prof.
@stephenquake.bsky.social
has been named a
@royalsociety.org
Fellow, joining the oldest scientific academy in the world. Great to see your huge contributions to driving scientific breakthroughs is recognized globally. 🎉
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https://royalsociety.org/news/2025/05/new-fellows/
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about 1 year ago
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We had a blast sharing our research at the Stanford School of Engineering Centennial Showcase! Grateful to be part of 100 years of innovation, discovery, and community. Happy 100th anniversary, Stanford Engineering! 💯🌲🎈
#CentennialShowcase
#100YearsOfInnovation
#OurBioticFuture
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about 1 year ago
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Stanford hosted its 2nd Synthetic Biology for Sustainability Symposium on May 7! Supported by deans of the Stanford Schools of Medicine, Engineering & Sustainability, the event featured cross-campus speakers on how synthetic biology can power a more sustainable future. Live sketch by Callie Chappell
about 1 year ago
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Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
about 1 year ago
Our 2025 photo contest results are in 📸 Explore action, beauty, and nature from the perspectives of Stanford community members:
stanford.io/42sbSkW
Image credits: Cara Askren, Peter Marinos, Max Kessler, Laurie LaPat-Polasko
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Interested in learning about the latest innovations in synthetic biology for sustainability? Join us for the Stanford Synthetic Biology for Sustainability symposium happening on May 7 🌲synbioevent.stanford.edu
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Synthetic Biology for Sustainability Symposium
https://synbioevent.stanford.edu
about 1 year ago
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Prakash Lab at Stanford
over 1 year ago
My favorite NPR story blog - “Goats and Soda” sent a writer and photographer to a rural school in India; an early adopter of Foldscope. A wonderful photo story of kids “reading nature”. In this current challenging climate - the kids show us the way with joy and wonder.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Stanford Cancer Institute
about 1 year ago
Congrats to SCI member
@astraight.bsky.social
on being named American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow. He was recognized for his distinguished contributions to the molecular, cellular, and
#genomic
properties of centromeres and spindle function.
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Four Stanford faculty named AAAS Fellows
The faculty are among 471 new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/03/four-stanford-faculty-named-aaas-fellows
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Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Cochran who was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering for protein discovery and development, biotechnology entrepreneurship, and leadership in academic bioengineering!
news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...
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Stanford faculty elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Jennifer Cochran and Christopher Manning have earned one of engineering's highest professional distinctions.
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/02/stanford-faculty-elected-to-the-national-academy-of-engineering
about 1 year ago
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Stanford BioE PhD student Bella Archibald named Top 30 Young Scientists working on breakthrough solutions to climate change 🌍🛠️🌿 Honored by Inflection Award for her impact
@jennbrophy.bsky.social
Read more:
bioengineering.stanford.edu/news/stanfor...
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Stanford Bioengineering PhD Student Named Top 30 Young Scientists for Climate Research
Bella Archibald receives the Inflection Award, which recognizes the world's Top 30 most promising young scientists.
https://bioengineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-bioengineering-phd-student-named-top-30-young-scientists-climate-research
about 1 year ago
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Stanford faculty are working to transform the way the world grows, distributes, and consumes food, with research in sustainable food systems, food security, health equity, culture, and diet. 🥗
news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...
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Stanford researchers reimagine the future of food
Dozens of faculty members at Stanford are working to transform the way the world grows, distributes, and consumes food, with research and scholarship spanning topics including sustainable food systems...
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/03/food-research-stanford-sustainability-agriculture-aquaculture
about 1 year ago
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Science thrives in a culture of support 💕
over 1 year ago
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Stanley Qi
over 1 year ago
We are excited to make
#CRISPR
accessible to high school education. 🧬 Go check out the article in The Stanford Daily to read about our frugal CRISPRkits.
#democratizingscience
#scienceaccessibility
@bioe-stanford.bsky.social
@stanford-chemh.bsky.social
stanforddaily.com/2025/02/03/c...
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Bioengineering lab provides affordable gene-editing kits
Stanford researchers introduced affordable gene-editing kits ready for the classroom, aiming to make the field more accessible for high school students.
https://stanforddaily.com/2025/02/03/crispr-kits/
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🚀 Meet Eliel Akinbami, a Stanford BioE PhD student in
@pollyfordyce.bsky.social
Lab! Their research has led to HT-MEK (High-Throughput Microfluidic Enzyme Kinetics), a groundbreaking technique that condenses years of enzyme research work into just weeks. 🔬
@stanford-chemh.bsky.social
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over 1 year ago
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Are you on the
#academicjobmarket
? Join Stanford Department of Bioengineering! We are seeking a Biological-Laboratory Lecturer to help develop and teach @Stanford undergraduate bioe courses!
#bioengineering
#synbio
#molecular
#cell
#physiology
Apply here:
goto.stanford.edu/bioe-jobs
over 1 year ago
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Researchers in Stanford’s Department of Bioengineering have developed a policy roadmap for community-centered science, LABraries, and a career path for community science, LABrarians. Read our policy report here:
bioengineering.stanford.edu/news/stanfor...
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Stanford Bioengineering Researchers Propose A National Plan for Public Biology Labs
Through the creation of LABraries and LABrarians, the public can learn and explore biology and biotechnology.
https://bioengineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-bioengineering-researchers-propose-national-plan-public-biology-labs
over 1 year ago
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Professor Michael Jewett and his collaborators are leveraging AI to revolutionize enzyme discovery, using a computational process that allows for engineering enzymes faster, while not having to rely on using living cells to produce the enzymes. Read more:
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In the hunt for new and better enzymes, AI steps to the fore
Combing through scads of DNA, chemical structure, and functional data, researchers have created an AI-guided platform that helps design, build, and test powerful new enzymes.
https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/hunt-new-and-better-enzymes-ai-steps-fore
over 1 year ago
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Stanford BioE ❤️🌲
youtu.be/VmHBADXeCy8?...
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Bioengineering: Where life sciences and engineering meet
YouTube video by Stanford University School of Engineering
https://youtu.be/VmHBADXeCy8?si=QwOEtS2MRtc3lvPn
over 1 year ago
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Congratulations to Dr. Paul Yock, Professor Emeritus and founding Co-Chair of Stanford Bioengineering, on receiving the National Medal of Technology and Innovation—the nation’s highest honor for groundbreaking achievements in technological achievement🏅👏
#StanfordBioE
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Science in 60 Seconds: Haotian Du, PhD student with Possu Huang’s lab, explains her research on creating novel proteins that expands the possibilities for detecting more cancer types.
@possuhuanglab.bsky.social
@haotiandu.bsky.social
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