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February 25, 2021 | UCLA Engineering Faculty Receives NSF Grant to Improve Quantum Computing Chips
Kang Wang, a UCLA electrical and computer engineering professor and his colleagues received a one-year, $920,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a new class of interconnect technology for future quantum computing.[xyz-ips...
February 24, 2021 | Santa Monica’s MAX BioPharma Develops New Drug Candidate to Treat COVID-19
MAX BioPharma, a Santa Monica biopharmaceutical startup has developed a new drug candidate with antiviral activity against COVID-19. Santa Monica’s MAX BioPharma Develops New Drug Candidate to Treat COVID-19 Local startup develops news...
February 23, 2021 | For UCLA-based startup, new muscular dystrophy treatment is a personal mission
Courtney Young helped develop the gene therapy at the heart of a biotech startup, MyoGene Bio, when she was a doctoral student at UCLA from 2013 to 2018. But the kernel of the company’s endeavor is older still — and definitively personal. [xyz-ips...
February 23, 2021 | COVID-19 patient registry increases plasma donations, aids in research studies
A UCLA registry is facilitating blood plasma donations from recovered COVID-19 patients and helping to guide COVID-19 research. COVID-19 patient registry increases plasma donations, aids in research studies by Madison Pfau and Maddie...
February 8, 2021 | Researchers create low-cost, AI-powered device to measure optical spectra
A team of researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has demonstrated a new approach to an old problem: measuring spectra of light, also known as spectroscopy. Researchers create low-cost, AI-powered device to measure optical...
February 2, 2021 | Bringing hands-on STEM learning home for the pandemic
For 16 years, the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has presented educational events for K–12 students and professional development workshops for teachers. The programs, meant to excite young people about nanoscience — a field that explores phenomena that...
February 1, 2021 | Organic chemist Heather D. Maynard named Associate Editor of JACS
Professor Heather Maynard named an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and starts the position on February 1, 2021. Organic chemist Heather D. Maynard named Associate Editor of JACS ...
January 22, 2021 | Autofocusing of microscopy images using deep learning
UCLA researchers have created a new image autofocusing technique to digitally bring a given microscopy image into focus without the use of a special microscope hardware or equipment during the image acquisition phase. Autofocusing of...
January 14, 2021 | In lab study, nanoparticle shows promising results for treating severe allergies
For about 1 in 13 children in the U.S., usually harmless foodstuffs such as milk, eggs and peanuts can send the body’s natural defenses into overdrive. Symptoms of food allergies can vary widely, but at worst, a systemwide allergic response can lead to anaphylaxis, a...
January 12, 2021 | Could the ocean hold the key to reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
A UCLA research team has proposed a pathway that could help extract billions of metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year. Instead of directly capturing atmospheric carbon dioxide, the technology would extract it from seawater, enabling the seawater...
January 7, 2020 | Study reveals new details about how bacterial toxins cause life-threatening colitis
Research led by scientists from UCLA and Harvard University has uncovered details about how the bacterium Clostridioides difficile causes excessive inflammation in the gut that can lead to potentially deadly colitis. Studying C. difficile toxin A, one of two toxins...
January 7, 2021 | Optical network shapes pulses of light
A team of UCLA engineers and researchers has developed a new method to shape light pulses by creating physical networks that are composed specially engineered layers.Optical network shapes pulses of light by UCLA Engineering Institute for Technology Advancement...