By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Discovery provides potential road map for drug development UCLA researchers have provided the first description of the structure of the herpes virus associated with Kaposi’s sarcoma, a type of cancer. The discovery...

UCLA bioengineering professor Ali Khademhosseini has led the development of a tissue-based soft robot that mimics the biomechanics of a stingray. The new technology could lead to advances in bio-inspired robotics, regenerative medicine and medical diagnostics.

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Professor Eran Halperin analyzes complex datasets in genomics, microbiology, and healthcare.  By Sarah C.P. Williams A century ago, the results of a biological study were generally observations scrawled longhand in a lab...

Professor Tim Fisher leads the Nanoscale Transport Research Group, which looks at transport processes by electrons, phonons, photons, and fluids, with an eye toward addressing problems in aerospace, micro- and nanoelectronics, and sensor systems.

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Lihua Jin’s work in soft materials engineering is helping pave the way for these kinds of advances In the Disney animated film “Big Hero 6,” the character Baymax is a loveable, squishy robot that resembles the Michelin...

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Photo, clockwise from top left: Subramanian Iyer, Henry Samueli, Alan N. Willson, Jr., and Eli Yablonovitch. Four faculty members affiliated with the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been...

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] ‘Macroscale multimodal chemical imaging’ reveals details about second century Egyptian painting Scientists from UCLA and the National Gallery of Art have used a combination of three advanced imaging techniques to produce...

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Applications include next-generation ultra-clean and efficient engines Mitchell Spearrin, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science,...

UCLA researchers have designed a device that can use solar energy to inexpensively and efficiently create and store energy, which could be used to power electronic devices, and to create hydrogen fuel for eco-friendly cars.