Life Sciences and Healthcare

A team of engineers works on a material that can flex like skin, transmit sensory data to the brain and restore a sense of touch.

Stanford chemical engineering Professor Zhenan Bao has spent a decade trying to develop materials that can flex and heal like skin, and also serve as the sensor net sending touch, temperature and pain signals to the brain. In a scientific journal, Bao’s team recently demonstrated a first — a skin-like material that could detect pressure and transmit signals to nerve cells. In this video, Bao shares how her team’s research could improve our ability to monitor health and potentially add a sense of touch to prosthetic limbs.

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Stanford bioengineers explore the inner workings of a novel mode of insect flight.

How does this beetle move along water?

When Manu Prakash was a graduate student, he would often search for his thoughts during hikes through the woods in western Massachusetts. On one of these excursions, he stopped by a pond to watch water lilies blossom, and noticed a series of small ripples flash across the water.

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A group of bioengineers & physicians discover that embryo 'squishing' could lead to more successful IVF pregnancies.

Selecting the right fertilized embryo for in vitro fertilization (IVF) might be as simple as choosing a ripe piece of fruit: Just give it a squeeze. If it's too firm or too soft, it might not be good. The sweet spot in between is just right.

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Researchers say the cost of carbon dioxide emissions may be six times more than government estimates.

A new study calculating the economic impacts of climate change shows that the costs of carbon dioxide emissions have been underestimated. | Photo by Robert S. Donovan

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12:00 pm, Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Building 200, Lane Hall, Rm2 (Rodriguez Lecture Hall)    Map

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4:30 - 7:00 pm, Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Huang Engineering, Mackenzie Room  Map

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The ME Graduate Women's Group has offered ME/ENGR 311A: Women's Perspectives, a 1-unit credit seminar, every year since the group's inception in 1998. For credit or not, everyone is welcome to come! Speakers are asked to address the factors, experiences, and lessons that have been particularly important to their success in industry, academia, and... life. 

Learn To Lead, Lead to Learn

4:15pm Social | 4:30pm Seminar starts

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The ME Graduate Women's Group has offered ME/ENGR 311A: Women's Perspectives, a 1-unit credit seminar, every year since the group's inception in 1998. For credit or not, everyone is welcome to come! Speakers are asked to address the factors, experiences, and lessons that have been particularly important to their success in industry, academia, and... life. 

Learn To Lead, Lead to Learn

4:15pm Social | 4:30pm Seminar starts

The seminars are every Thursday, January 7 - March 10, 2016

Last modified Mon, 22 Feb, 2016 at 15:48

An artificial intelligence system trains itself to identify poverty zones by comparing daytime and nighttime satellite images in a novel way.

Researchers are developing software that can analyze satellite imagery to provide a better way to map poverty in places like Uganda. REUTERS | James Akena

Last modified Tue, 1 Mar, 2016 at 10:39

At Stanford's first Women in Data Science Conference, engineers from industry and academia discuss personalized medicine, entertainment, marketing, cybersecurity and more.

Big data will have important implications for healthcare technology, including wearables | REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

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