Chemical Cocktail Activates Stem Cells, Promotes Repair After Muscle Damage
Stem-cell engineering helps regenerate muscle after injury or disease in mouse models Skeletal muscle – the type of muscle that attaches to bones and enables movement – is the most abundant tissue in the human body. This tissue has the ability to regenerate after...
30 Life Sciences Leaders In The Spotlight
May 17th, 2021, Dr. Chen was highlighted as 30 Life Sciences Leaders To Watch by In Vivo. In Vivo has highlighted entrepreneurs and innovators who represent the next wave of creativity in health care. The selected 30 Rising Leaders are making waves and challenging...
UCLA Bioengineers Develop World’s Fastest 3D Camera with Light-Field Tomography
May 24, 2021 By UCLA Samueli Newsroom A team of bioengineers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has discovered a new technology that enables a camera to take 3D images at a rate of 100-billion-frames per second. The ultrafast camera can capture a short...
Integrating medical imaging and cancer biology with deep neural networks
Neural network framework may increase radiologist’s confidence in assessing the type of lung cancer on CT scans, informing individualized treatment planning 10 May 2021 Neural network framework. Credit: Smedley, Aberle, and Hsu, doi 10.1117/1.JMI.8.3.031906 Despite...
UCLA Grad Student’s New Podcast Raises Awareness of Child Abuse
May 13, 2021 By UCLA Samueli Newsroom Since 1983, April has been designated Child Abuse Prevention Month, an annual observance in the United States dedicated to raising awareness and preventing child abuse.Bioengineering graduate student Helia Hosseini knows firsthand...
Bioengineers Find Ways to Enhance Potential Drug for Chronic Inflammatory Diseases
Apr 29, 2021 By UCLA Samueli Newsroom UCLA bioengineers have created a computational model to fine-tune a potential drug for the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases. A study detailing the finding was recently published in Cell Reports. The researchers focused...
UCLA engineers create new magnets made of exotic materials to trap and release single cells
A team led by UCLA engineers was able to structure the exotic material Terfenol-D and show it could be formed into arrays of digitally-switchable micro-magnets to control the capture and release of individual cells, promising to enable selection of cells by their...
UCLA Researchers Develop New, Noninvasive AI Method to Inspect Live Cells and Gain Critical Data
Mar 24, 2021 By UCLA Newsroom Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have discovered a new artificial intelligence-based method to discern the properties of live biological cells without destroying them. The advance could enable laboratories to conduct...
New AI approach enables research collaboration while protecting patient privacy
In this Q&A, Dr. Corey Arnold and his graduate student, Karthik Sarma, explain how federated learning can enable more powerful AI models while enhancing the protection of patient data 03/08/2021 UCLA Health cancer researchers (from left) Dr. Corey Arnold and...