To the rescue: UCLA bioengineers create reusable COVID-19 face shields
Brianna Aldrich and Christine Wei-li Lee | April 7, 2020 First responders and health care workers have been putting their lives on the line to treat the tidal wave of COVID-19 patients flooding emergency rooms and intensive care units. Meanwhile, hospitals across the...
IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19, A UCLA LAB IS CRANKING OUT FACE SHIELDS
Masks aren’t enough. That’s the realization medical workers across the country are starting to realize in their war against Covid-19, an enemy with no need to sleep or eat. It spurts out of infected patients like pollen from a flower, instituting dry coughs that send...
UCLA Engineers Developing Surgical Face Shields for Area Hospitals
Home » Education » This Article POSTED BY CONTRIBUTING EDITOR ON MARCH 26, 2020 IN EDUCATION | LEAVE A RESPONSE Share this article: Engineers at UCLA have begun using 3D printing and laser cutting equipment to produce surgical face shields in an effort to meet the...
UCLA Engineers Step Up to Help Health Care Workers
Laser-cut face shield (L) and 3D-printed model (R) — Jacob Schmidt/UCLA Samueli Mar 25, 2020 By UCLA Samueli Newsroom With a deluge of patients suffering from COVID-19 expected to flood hospitals in the very near future, UCLA engineers are part of a quickly growing...
Rescuing dental implants with an engineered hydrogel
From a materials’ perspective, bone regeneration in craniofacial defects can be challenging, particularly considering the aqueous and dynamic environment of the oral cavity. UCLA bioengineers and dental scientists developed an injectable biopolymer-based adhesive...
UCLA engineers develop miniaturized “warehouse robots” for biotechnology applications
The robots-on-a-chip system could lead to faster, automated blood diagnostics for disease screening Feb 27, 2020 By UCLA Samueli Newsroom UCLA engineers have developed minuscule warehouse logistics robots that could help expedite and automate medical diagnostic...
UCLA Researchers Develop Coin-Sized Smart Insulin Patch
Feb 3, 2020 By UCLA Samueli Newsroom UCLA bioengineers and their colleagues have developed a smart insulin-delivery patch that could one day monitor and manage glucose levels in people with diabetes and deliver necessary insulin dosage. The adhesive patch, about the...
Paper-based test could diagnose Lyme disease at early stages
“Point-of-Care Serodiagnostic Test for Early-Stage Lyme Disease Using a Multiplexed Paper-Based Immunoassay and Machine Learning” ACS Nano FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | December 18, 2019 After a day hiking in the forest, the last thing a person wants to discover is a tick...
Researchers convert 2D images into 3D using deep learning
SCIENCE + TECHNOLOGY Microscopy technique is expected to benefit studies in life sciences and biology Wayne Lewis | November 7, 2019 A UCLA research team has devised a technique that extends the capabilities of fluorescence microscopy, which allows scientists to...