This portfolio showcases Stanford technologies that engineer biology to sense, compute, and build. The collection spans programmable cells carrying synthetic receptors and gene switches, cell-free and microbial routes to chemicals and therapeutics, computational and high-throughput approaches to protein design, precision genome engineering tools, and biosensors that read out molecules continuously and without sample preparation. Together these inventions give researchers and companies new ways to control cellular behavior, manufacture complex molecules sustainably, and measure biology in real time.
This collection features inventions from Stanford researchers including Kyle Daniels, Stanley Qi, Lacramioara Bintu, Michael Jewett, James Swartz, Elizabeth Sattely, Polly Fordyce, Brian Hie, Possu Huang, Michael Bassik, Lars Steinmetz, Rhiju Das, and Tom Soh.