In case you need a little pick-me-up to start your week, courtesy of Fred Hutch’s Human Biology Division. 🔬🧫🤗

(1/n) Press release: Thank you Schmidt Ocean Institute for such a remarkable partnership. 2 weeks, 30plus new species, a couple of world’s first at sea. The entire expedition etched in memory - from keeping an angler fish alive for days to mysteries of giants from deep m.youtube.com/watch?si=f10...

Designing the Future 3 | 4K ROV Highlights

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Physicist Daniel Palanker built a retinal implant that allows blind patients to read and write again. He’s working on a version sharp enough to recognize faces. We spoke about how the implant turns light into electricity to help restore sight. engineering.stanford.edu/news/future-...

The future of retinal implants

A physicist has created a remarkable retinal implant that allows the blind to read and write – and is now working on a higher resolution version for recognizing the faces of loved ones.

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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...

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First preprint of the @pollyfordyce.bsky.social and @dunnlab.bsky.social collaboration! We used high-throughput microfluidics for sequence-strength mapping at the single-molecule level. Our new tech allowed us to discover a fundamental nonequilibrium property of multivalent systems. 1/13

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

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. stanmed.stanford.edu/gut-brain-ne...

Jennifer Brophy is leading advancements in synthetic biology to enhance plants’ natural defenses against pests, such as insects. t.co/mM2IVLtxpY

@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/...

🎧 ICYMI: Mark Skylar-Scott joins #StanDOM's @euanashley.bsky.social 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

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: t.co/TQqOL0ARDw

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. go.nature.com/4bcjZ9w

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.

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Best view on campus? Even the hawks agree. 🦅 Shriram Center for Bioengineering and Chemical engineering PC: Jan Hansen

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 🧪

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. bioengineering.stanford.edu/news/taste-f...

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.

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One of the best parts of Stanford BioE is our incredible students — and Sydney Barta is no exception. 🌟 bit.ly/4iotkNH

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.

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Autumn glow on campus 🌲🌟

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.

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...

🌱 Congrats to Stanford BioE Professor @jennbrophy.bsky.social, named a 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar! www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...

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.

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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 🎉

The 2025 Stanford BioE Department Symposium was a celebration of bold science and a bright community! 🧫🧑🏻‍🔬🌲🖼️

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!

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...

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.

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Introducing @bioe_stanford Class of 2025! 📸: Fontejon Photography

📣 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 → bit.ly/4hxQgsB

🏆 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. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

🍄 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.

Art & Synthetic Biology with Drew Endy & Phil Ross | Art &

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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 med.stanford.edu/raisehealth/... @stanfordhai.bsky.social

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.” www.quantamagazine.org/how-paradoxi...

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.”

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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!!!