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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

Researcher Todd Coleman stands next to researcher Julia Kaltschmidt, seated, against a laboratory background.

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...

Researcher in blue lab coat holding small green leaf plant facing a brightly lit indoor greenhouse cabinet.

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

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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/...

🎧 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

A diagnostics training in Monrovia, Liberia, incorporates feedback from community health workers and doctors. | Prakash lab

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

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.

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

Happy Holidays SSG from Stanford BioE! ✨✨✨

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

Figure 1 from the linked preprint, “3D Hybrid Bioprinting for Complex Multi-Tissue Engineering,” by Alizadeh et al. The caption reads: “Overview of the 3D hybrid bioprinting approach and applications. (A) Photograph of the Hybprinter with an inset schematic of the printing chamber displaying the MME and multi-hydrogel DLP-SLA modules, alongside sample prints showing potential applications in tissue modeling and therapeutics. (B) Layer-by-layer hybrid fabrication process and schematic representation of a hybrid multi-hydrogel construct. (C) Step-by-step illustration of hybrid bioprinting in progress. (D) Hybrid print showcadsing multi-lydrogel Stanford logo integrated into a hard scaffold. (E, F) Multi-hydrogel sample print of the Stanford logo composed of three colored PEGDMA hydrogels.”

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.

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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.

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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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.

One of the best parts of Stanford BioE is our incredible students — and Sydney Barta is no exception. 🌟
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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 Thiam for winning the 2026 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award. Hawa is being recognized for being a trailblazer of subcellular biophysics and unveiling new paradigms of biophysical immunology through her dynamic measurements of physical forces on organelles in real time.

Congratulations to our Institute Scholar @hawa-racine.bsky.social for winning the 2026 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award! @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social
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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.

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

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 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.

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

🍄 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.

Featuring: Nicolò Fusi (Microsoft Research), Brian Hie (Stanford University), Emma Lundberg (Stanford Medicine), James Zou (Stanford Medicine)

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/...

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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.”

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...

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!!!

Microscopy image showing microbial cells (stained in pink) in the gut of a mouse. (Credit: Justin Sonnenburg/Stanford University)

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

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.

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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Episode #28 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On whole-cell modeling of bacteria – with Markus Covert

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In 2020 a model of E. coli with 10000 equations and 19000 parameters was presented by the guest.
How are such models made?