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November 16, 2021 | 13 CNSI members among most highly cited researchers for 2021
Thirteen CNSI Members are among forty-three UCLA scholars that have been named as the world’s most influential scientific researchers. 13 CNSI members among most highly cited researchers for 2021 Thirteen CNSI Members are among...
November 4, 2021 | Advanced 3D cell imager added to CNSI’s light microscopy resources
The Leica THUNDER Imager. The instrument removes out-of-focus light in real time, offering the best quality widefield images possible for studying live cells, cell cultures, tissue samples, stem cells, spheroids, organoids and more. The THUNDER Imager is available for use at the Advanced Light Microscopy and Spectroscopy Lab, an open-access Technology Center in the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA.
October 18, 2021 | 3D imaging study reveals how atoms are packed in amorphous materials
A UCLA-led research team is using a method they developed to map atomic structure in three dimensions, the scientists have directly observed how atoms are packed in samples of amorphous materials. The findings, published today in Nature Materials, may force a rewrite...
October 15, 2021 | A decade after gene therapy, children born with deadly immune disorder remain healthy
Over a decade ago, UCLA physician-scientists began using a pioneering gene therapy they developed to treat children born with a rare and deadly immune system disorder. They now report that the effects of the therapy appear to be long-lasting, with 90% of patients who...
October 14, 2021 | MAE Professor Receives NSF Grants for Molecular Manufacturing and Computing
Elisa Franco, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received two research grants totaling $3.6 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the development of microscopic...
September 21, 2021 | CNSI Launches Quantum Biology Center at UCLA
First U.S. hub for research into small-scale basis of biological processes will focus on community-building. At the smallest of scales, the laws of physics as proposed by Sir Isaac Newton famously break down. Pairs of particles are intrinsically linked across...
September 16, 2021 | Researchers Infuse Bacteria with Silver to Improve Power Efficiency in Fuel Cells
A UCLA-led team of engineers and chemists has taken a major step forward in the development of microbial fuel cells — a technology that utilizes natural bacteria to extract electrons from organic matter in wastewater to generate electrical currents. A study detailing...
August 24, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence Re-stained Images of Tissue Biopsy Expedite Diagnoses
In lifesaving situations, expedient and accurate diagnostic tools are critical to aid pathologists in examining biopsied tissue samples looking for signs of diseases. UCLA engineers found a new path to achieve that with virtual re-staining of tissue images that is...
August 18, 2021 | Strength in Diversity
Thanks to a Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) award from the National Science Foundation, NMHU, UCSB and UCLA materials scientists will leverage their research, technological prowess and strength in diversity to the problem of petroleum-based...
August 18, 2021 | CNSI awards Noble Family Innovation Fund grants to 10 UCLA nanoscience research teams
A new UCLA fund for high-risk, high-reward interdisciplinary investigations has awarded its first set of grants. The Noble Family Innovation Fund, established with a philanthropic commitment to the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA totaling $10 million over...
August 17, 2021 | Artificial Intelligence Re-stains Images of Tissue Biopsy with new Stains, Improving Accuracy of Diagnoses
Researchers at UCLA developed a deep learning-based technique which can be used to eliminate the need for these special stains to be prepared by human histotechnologists, by computationally transforming existing images of the H&E stained tissue into special stains....
August 17, 2021 | UCLA-led study could clarify how gut microbes can exacerbate cognitive decline
Recent research has found that changes in the gut microbiota — the trillions of bacteria and other microbes that live in the intestines — can alter the brain and behavior. Now, a study led by scientists at UCLA could elucidate how and why that phenomenon...