By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Cell-penetrating peptides, such as the HIV TAT peptide, are able to enter cells using a number of mechanisms, from direct entry to endocytosis, a process by which cells internalize molecules by...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Two students of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science are recipients of the prestigious Cadet Research Award from the United States Air Force, making them the first UCLA...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Aydogan Ozcan, associate professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering, has received the country’s highest honor for science and engineering researchers who are at an early stage of their careers. Ozcan was one of...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout For decades, laboratory mice have been widely used in research aimed at understanding which genes are involved in various illnesses. But actual variations in past gene sequences of mice were...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Andrea M. Kasko, assistant professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received a 2011 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award from the National...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Three-year study funded by National Science Foundation aims to integrate today’s largely disconnected traffic management systems The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a grant worth nearly $2 million to Rutgers...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Proving a concept and leaping the `valley of death` By Wallace Ravven An instrument to quickly detect traumatic brain injury, a vaccine to save unborn calves from a deadly bacteria and a technology to clean up grimy water...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Southern California imports between 80 to 90 percent of its water from outside the metropolitan region. And much of it comes from the Sierra Nevada. So to learn right at the source, UCLA students in the...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Dino Di Carlo, an assistant professor of bioengineering, was awarded a Young Faculty Award (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The goal of the DARPA YFA program is to identify and engage...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A University of California technology that significantly reduces the amount of energy wasted by chips in computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices has recently passed the trillion watt-hour milestone in energy...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Winners receive up to $100K to commercialize innovations Five teams of scientists from multiple campuses of the University of California and a Southern California hospital have been awarded up to $100,000 each to...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Judy Lin What happened to the levees of New Orleans in 2005 — massive collapses during Hurricane Katrina, leaving most of the city underwater — could happen to fragile levees near Sacramento that protect supplies of...