Stanford University

Stanford's bioengineering and synthetic biology programs provide academic infrastructure for Arc Institute collaborations. - Academic partner in Evo development and phage research

Stanford and Arc Institute researchers used an AI called Evo to write genetic code for 302 bacteriophage viruses from scratch. Sixteen of them worked—they replicated, killed bacteria, and some even outperformed the natural virus they were modeled on. It's the first time a machine has successfully designed complete, functional genomes without human guidance on what genes to include or how to arrange them.

Updated Jan 7

Leading research university driving carbon nanotube and 3D integration breakthroughs. - Lead research institution on monolithic 3D chip development

A team from Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Penn, and MIT just built something chip makers have chased for decades: a true 3D chip manufactured in a U.S. commercial foundry that stacks memory directly on top of computing logic. Presented at December's IEEE electron devices conference, the prototype beats conventional flat chips by 4x in tests and could deliver 1,000x energy efficiency gains in future generations. The trick? Carbon nanotube transistors and resistive RAM built at temperatures low enough to avoid frying the circuits below, creating vertical data highways where today's chips force information to crawl across horizontal distances.

Updated Dec 27, 2025