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Light, Hydrogel and OsciBots

Light-pushed robot
Here’s an update on “Fantastic Voyage.”  “Engineers at University of Los Angles have come up with a tiny new [MORE]

Post-Surgical Gel Prevents Tumor Recurrence

Post-surgery healing gel
A collaboration between researchers at UCLA, UNC and two Chinese universities has “developed an in situ formed immunotherapeutic [MORE]

Synthetic T Cells

T Cells
According to this piece, researchers at UCLA’s dental school were able to create soft, flexible microparticles that mimic functional [MORE]

Measuring Cell Strength Indicating Hypertension

Measuring the Strength of Macrophages
A new high-throughput device measures cell strength—important information for determining drug efficacy for hypertension, asthma, muscular [MORE]

DNA Diagnostics in a POC Device

Cellphone DNA Detector
Bioengineers at UCLA recently found that adding a chemical, hydroxynaphthol blue, to the intercalator dyes that detect certain [MORE]

Lens-Free on-Chip Microscopy for Diagnosing Gout

Uric Acid Crystals
If people don’t die before reaching their hundredth birthday, they enter an especially healthy demographic cohort except for [MORE]

Photothermal Blade Technology for Mitochondrial Diseases

Mitochondrion
Ataxia, retinitis pigmentosa, myoclonic epilepsy, and diabetes mellitus with deafness are some of the disorders known as mitochondrial diseases. With [MORE]

A Sigh Is Not Just a Sigh

Neurons Controlling Sighing
A sigh may be a fundament thing of life, as time goes by, but here is an illustration [MORE]

“Velcro” Chip Snags Circulating Tumor Cells

NanoVelcro Chip
Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute (Los Angeles) have developed a nanochip device for capturing circulating tumor cells in [MORE]

Putting Genomic Data into an EMR

DNA
UCLA hospitals and Seattle-based ActX, a consumer genomics company, are collaborating to put genomic test results into UCLA’s Epic Medical [MORE]

Catching Circulating Cancer Cells with “Nano-Velcro”

Nano Velcro
Pharmacology scientists at UCLA’s Nanosystems Institute have developed a cell isolation system that uses thermoresponsive “nano-velcro” (actually, a postage [MORE]

Google Glass Diagnostics

Google Glasses
Here’s the scenario: someone (doctor, nurse, medtech) wearing Google Glasses takes a picture of a rapid diagnostic test strip [MORE]

Kidney Function Analysis via Smartphone

Portable Device for Kidney Problems
Nano engineers at UCLA have developed a device that attaches to a smartphone for measuring [MORE]

The “Happiness” Peptide

It seems too simple that a single peptide could be the key to human happiness, but psychiatric researchers at [MORE]