New fund, targeting technologies in engineering and the physical sciences, helps launch companies in robotics, 3D printing, and materials discovery

Professors David Liu, George Church, George Whitesides, David Weitz, Roy Gordon, Charles Lieber, and Robert Wood were among the faculty members issued U.S. patents this May.

Harvard labs have developed high-throughput techniques to quickly, easily and inexpensively give every cell in a sample a unique genetic barcode.

Harvard has been making a real push on technology licensing and startup creation in areas like computer science, artificial intelligence, and robotics, reports Xconomy.