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Cell phones using lens-free imaging promise to improve health monitoring
December 22, 2008 - New advances result in accurate ID of smaller particles using holograms
Cell phones have already revolutionized the way people around the world communicate and do business. Thanks to advances being made at UCLA, they are about to do the same thing for medicine.
In the lab of UCLA electrical engineering professor Aydogan Ozcan, a prototype c...more |
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Prototype of Lens-free Imaging System for Health Monitoring Featured on Wired.com
December 20, 2008 - Technology from CNSI Member Aydogan Ozcan has been featured in a gallery on Wired.com. There are nine photographs taken in Ozcan's lab in the photo gallery, and a description of his latest research.
Please visit Wired.com to view the gal...more |
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Scalable Relations
Works by University of California Digital Arts Network (UCDARnet) faculty
UCDARnet Scalable Relations Website
[Beall Center for Art + Technology dates:
January 9 - March 14, 2009
Opening Reception: UC Irvine - January 8, 6:30 - 9:00 pm]
Scalable Relations is a series of networked exhibitions that presents media artworks by faculty of the ...more |
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Chemistry World Features Carbon Dioxide Capture Research among 2008
December 18, 2008 - Carbon dioxide capture research by Omar Yaghi, head of the Center for Reticular Chemistry at CNSI, has been highlighted by Chemistry World as one of the biggest chemical breakthroughs of 2008. The text below is excerpted from the Chemistry World article:
Omar Yaghi and colleagues at the University of California at Los Angeles applied high throughput chemistry to make a series of highly porous crystalline materials called zeolitic imida...more |
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Michael Phelps, CRUMP Director and CNSI Member, receives part of $1.8M in state grants awarded to UCLA for stem cell research
December 15, 2008 - Two UCLA scientists have been awarded more than $1.8 million in state grants to develop innovative tools and technologies that will help overcome technical hurdles in advancing basic, translational and clinical stem cell research.
Michael Phelps, Norton Simon Professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, will receive a ...more |
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MIT Technology Review Features Nanotechnology Research by CNSI Member James Liao on Biofuels
December 09, 2008 - Modified E. coli produce long-chain alcohol fuels that have advantages over ethanol and butanol.
By engineering the metabolic process of the common E. coli bacteria, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have coaxed the microorganism into churning out useful long-chain alcohols that have potential as new biofuels. The bacteria-produced biofuels have between five and eight carbon atoms, compared ...more |
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Mathematical model proposed by a research team lead by CNSI Member William Klug gives a clearer picture of physics of cells, organelles
December 08, 2008 - Research could shed light on life cycle of membrane-bound viruses like HIV
Cells are filled with membrane-bound organelles like the nucleus, mitochondria and endoplasmic reticula. Over the years, scientists have made much progress in understanding the biomolecular details of how these organelles function within cells, but understanding the actual physical forces that maintain the structures of these organelles' membranes continu...more |
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Science and Entertainment Exchange Program at CSNI to Bring Nanotechnology to Hollywood Featured in LA Times
December 07, 2008 - A program called the Science and Entertainment Exchange (SEE) that was recently started to give Hollywood directors and writers access to researchers from the California NanoSystems Institute for scientific and medical advice to improve accuracy in entertainment programming was recently profiled in a story in the Los Angeles Times. SEE is directed by Jennifer Ouellette and is located in the CNSI Building. It is a program of the National Acad...more |
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UCLA signs historic memorandum with pediatric institution in Tokyo
December 05, 2008 - Collaboration will create international network to enhance research
As part of a new initiative to create partnerships with pediatric research institutions around the globe, Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the department of pediatrics at Tokyo's Jikei University School of Medicine.
The memorandum is the first among Mattel Children's Hospital's many planned agreements with leadi...more |
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Armenian Minister Visits CNSI to Discuss Joint Nanotechnology Center
December 01, 2008 - A delegation from Armenia lead by Hranush Hakobyan, Minister of the Diaspora, recently visited CNSI to begin discussions on setting up a nanotechnology center. The proposed center will be located in Armenia and run by its government. The center, with assistance from CNSI, would focus on issues of particular importance to Armenia, such as clean water and alternative energy. Professor more |
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