Research

With help from recent gifts, the Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiative (eWEAR-X) is supercharging its efforts to transform researchers’ inspiration into reality

Two new papers demonstrate novel ways of fine-tuning cellular functions, with applications in cancer treatment, diagnostics, and more.

The Sattely lab works to reveal how plants use their chemistry to grow into the largest and longest-living organisms on Earth.

How researchers are wielding a tool to repair our 3D bodies.

Greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, and water usage are all meaningfully reduced when – instead of mining for new metals – batteries are recycled.

New processes can extract fertilizers and metals from waste.

Protein engineering research is revealing the mysteries of life and enabling advances in pharmaceuticals and other industries.

The Laboratory of Evolutionary Design, led by Brian Hie, focuses on ensuring the AI revolution in biology occurs in a way that benefits humanity.

Chemical engineering professor and Stanford alum brings love of problem-solving to research.

Research projects will advance molecular and tissue engineering tools to more precisely study and interact with brain circuits

Stanford scientists designed a catalyst that turns carbon dioxide into ethanol, which could incentivize cleaning up emissions.

A new process for microscale 3D printing creates particles of nearly any shape for applications in medicine, manufacturing, research and more

Stanford researchers have developed soft integrated circuits that are powerful enough to drive a micro-LED screen and small enough to read thousands of sensors

In searching for how a gene mutation associated with the cell’s recycling center leads to a rare disease, the team identified a missing link in neurodegenerative conditions.

A chemical engineer explains why microbes make the best drug factories in the world — and why science is still playing catch-up.