New Way to Cool Electronics and Recover Waste Heat
Ohio Ag Connection - 05/13/2020 Using electronic devices for too long can cause them to overheat, which might slow them down, damage their components or even make them explode or catch fire. Now, researchers reporting in the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Nano...
UCLA Scientists Say They Have Developed More Accurate COVID-19 Test
COVID-19 MAY 13, 2020 12:07 AM The new kits are designed to collect more materials and lead to fewer false negatives. Ted Chen reported on NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 12, 2020. Click here for video
UCLA engineers using 3-D printing in race to get coronavirus face shields to hospitals
100 shields can be produced each day but the team is working on designs solely involving laser cutting that could increase the rate to more than 1,000 per day. These masks were created at UCLA. At far left, a mask that was 3D-printed. In the photo at right, the left...
How sick will coronavirus make you? Baton Rouge researchers look to sepsis for warnings
BY ANDREA GALLO | STAFF WRITER APR 23, 2020 - 6:09 PM 2 min to read Facebook Twitter Email To mitigate exposure to Covid-19, Dr. Bud O'Neal, left and Marla Heintze, a surgical ICU nurse, use a cell phone camera to zoom in on a ventilator to get a patients information...
Cytovale Receives Additional BARDA Funding to Evaluate Rapid Sepsis Diagnostic in Persons Under Investigation (PUI) for COVID-19
Pilot Study for New Technology Launched in Louisiana, COVID-19 Hot Spot Expansion of BARDA funding will help fund Cytovale pilot study for innovative rapid sepsis diagnostic system that delivers results in under 10 minutes The pilot study will be conducted in...
Cytovale gets new BARDA funding to assess early sepsis detection technology for COVID-19
By Meg Bryant No Comments Cytovale Inc., a San Francisco-based medical technology company, has snagged an additional $3.83 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to...
A step toward a more efficient way to make gene therapies to attack cancer, genetic disorders
Stuart Wolpert | April 27, 2020 A UCLA-led research team today reports that it has developed a new method for delivering DNA into stem cells and immune cells safely, rapidly and economically. The method, described in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of...
Biotech Company Founded by UCLA Engineers Helps Increase Accuracy in COVID-19 Testing
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom A biotech company founded by UCLA Samueli School of Engineering bioengineers has launched a product to look for COVID-19 more accurately than conventional tests by extracting RNA from patient samples. According to PHASE Scientific, its Phasify...
UCLA Engineers Develop First-Ever Drag-Reduction Technology for Boats
Credit-card-sized “superhydrophobic” surface has microscopic grooves that trap air and reduce water friction by 30%. By UCLA Samueli Newsroom A research team from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has demonstrated that a specially designed surface is able to...