Buildings seemed to sprout all over campus this past academic year. Many are completed, but one that is on its way is the Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Building, the last component of the Science and Engineering Quad (SEQ).
"Off-the-charts spectacular" is how Drew Endy, assistant professor of bioengineering and a member of the faculty committee overseeing construction, described his department's future home, set to open in 2014. The committee is chaired by Curt Frank, professor of chemical engineering.
Sometimes, remembering and forgetting are hard to do.
“It took us three years and 750 tries to make it work, but we finally did it,” said Dr. Jerome Bonnet of his latest research, a method for repeatedly encoding, storing, and erasing digital data within the DNA of living cells.
The neurons that control movement are not a predictable bunch. Scientists working to decode how such neurons convey information to muscles have been stymied when trying to establish a one-to-one relationship between a neuron’s behavior and factors such as muscle activity or movement velocity.
As a Stanford undergraduate, Stephen Quake took on a ‘runt’ project in Nobel laureate Stephen Chu’s laboratory that interested no other student in the lab: using tools developed for atomic physics to measure DNA. The resulting thesis won him a national prize.
Responding to a university-wide call for proposals last month, more than 40 individual faculty and small teams outlined plans for innovation in online learning, and around half – from the schools of Humanities and Sciences, Education, Medicine and Engineering – will receive full or partial funding.
The entire genomes of 91 human sperm from one man have been sequenced by Stanford University researchers. The results provide a fascinating glimpse into naturally occurring genetic variation in one individual, and are the first to report the whole-genome sequence of a human gamete — the only cells that become a child and through which parents pass on physical traits.
