From Lab to Market: A Bioengineering Alum’s Journey through Manufacturing Moderna COVID Vaccine
Sep 14, 2022 UCLA Samueli Newsroom After graduating from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in bioengineering, Phillip Cox ’17 started working at a then small Boston-based startup that develops biotechnologies using tiny pieces of genetic code known as messenger RNA, or...
UCLA-led Team Induces Cell Reprogramming Process with Mechanical Squeeze
Illustration of a UCLA-developed high-throughput microfluidic prototype with microchannels of 1/100th of a millimeter in diameter that squeezes cells as they move through the device. Changing color indicates the decrease of closed chromatin structure Aug 23,...
A Self-Powered HMI That’s Also Waterproof- Using the giant magnetoelastic effect to generate electricity from ambient mechanical motion
BY: PAYAL DHAR | 23 AUG 2022 Over the past few decades, human-machine interface (HMI) technologies, especially driven by the demands of wearables, have progressed rapidly—into smaller, lighter, more efficient, more robust forms. Today, we also have various...
Researchers Invent a Privacy-Preserving Camera That Only Captures What You Want
By: Andrew Liszewski | 8/16/22 Privacy is an obvious concern now that everything from smartphones to smartwatches to even smart glasses has built-in cameras. Banning covert cameras is never going to happen, and digitally altering images for privacy reasons is a real...
UCLA scientists bring cultured meat closer to your kitchen table
Holly Ober | August 16, 2022 Key takeaways: Edible particles could reduce the time, expense and waste required to produce cultured meat. Current methods can produce a cultured steak that mimics the structure of T-bone, but not at the scale needed for food production....
Bug Eyes and Bat Sonar: UCLA Bioengineers Turn to Animal Kingdom for Creation of Bionic Super 3D Cameras
Aug 9, 2022 UCLA Samueli A pair of UCLA bioengineers and a former postdoctoral scholar have developed a new class of bionic 3D camera systems that can mimic flies’ multiview vision and bats’ natural sonar sensing, resulting in multidimensional imaging with...
UCLA Engineering Professor CJ Kim Launches New Journal ‘Droplet’
Jul 27, 2022 UCLA Samueli Newsroom Chang-Jin “CJ” Kim, the Volgenau Chair in Engineering and a distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and bioengineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has joined the founding editorial team of...
Bringing a Physicist’s Mindset to the Biosciences
Jul 22, 2022 Originally posted on UCLA Newsroom In his lab, Gerard Wong, professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, explores the molecular mechanisms behind basic processes of life and their influence on human health. But his original...
UCLA Bioengineering Department Hires Two New Assistant Professors
Jul 28, 2022 UCLA Samueli Newsroom The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering is proud to welcome two outstanding scholars to the Bioengineering Department — Mireille Kamariza and Jaimie Marie Stewart — who will join the school next year as assistant...