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Scientists Engineer Human Cells With Squid-like Transparency
“For millennia, people have been fascinated by transparency and invisibility, which have inspired philosophical speculation, works of science fiction, and much academic research,” said lead author Atrouli Chatterjee, a UCI doctoral student in chemical & biomolecular engineering.
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Service Agreements
Contracts Services assists with the review, revision and execution of a variety of purchase agreements, professional service agreements, performance agreements and non-sponsored program revenue generating agreements. Contract Services analyzes and reviews terms and conditions to assure compliance with state and federal laws, and UC or campus policies.
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Study: Droughts Are Growing Hotter Under Climate Change
"We've observed a shift of approximately 0.6 degrees Celsius [1.0 Fahrenheit] between the first and the second half of the 20th century. But if you only include months classified as dry, you see that there's almost double the shift in temperature," said lead author Felicia Chiang, a graduate student researcher in civil and environmental engineering at UC Irvine.
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Sungkyunkwan University
South KoreaJong Tae Kim, Ph.D.Dong-Ryeol Shin, Ph.D.Memorandum of Understanding signed on February 2nd, 2013.
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Southern California prepares for Hurricane Hilary
“That stretch of the coastline [San Clemente and Capistrano Beach] has been starved of sand for decades,” said Brett Sanders, UCI engineering professor. “It’s now trying to survive with very little sand in the system. So the efforts that we are taking to put more sand in are going to be good for that whole stretch of coastline but we need to do more to restore it to a natural state.” Professor Sanders says Hilary could create runoff that eventually pulls sand toward the coast but it takes many years to fill back our beaches that have seen decades of erosion.
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Stories of Impact
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San Clemente hopes to add 250,000 cubic yards of sand to beaches
Brett Sanders, a University of Irvine professor of civil and environmental engineering, walked on the other end of the project recently at Linda Lane. He noted that the city’s project is a good start. "But it’s only one piece of the puzzle," he added. "What we need to be thinking about is the entire Southern California coastline from San Diego up to Santa Barbara and thinking about how we restore natural supplies to the coast.” … "So the question is, what is the long term plan? And we’re going to need more projects like this," he said.
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Scientists gene-hack human cells with squid DNA to turn them invisible
That means that genetic research continues to carry on. Scientists from the University of California Irvine have pulled a page from the squid’s playbook with their latest research. One of the cephalopod’s neatest and most useful tricks is the ability to turn invisible. With some clever genetic engineering, the team recreated that ability in human cells. Read More
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Startups & Innovations - Funding
ValVention Inc., an Irvine cardiovascular device company, received a $350,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The funding supports the study of ValVention’s FoldaValve, a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) system, which can help restore blood flow to patients suffering from aortic valve stenosis – a disease in which the heart valve narrows and reduces blood flow to the body. … The device originated at California Institute of Technology and was developed at University of California, Irvine by Professor of [Biomedical] Engineering and Medicine Arash Kheradvar.
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Squid skin inspires heat-regulating coffee cup
Inspired by squid skin, engineers at UC Irvine have created a cheap, easy-to-recycle material that can be “tuned” to regulate heat. As insulation for food and beverage packages, it could ensure that whatever is inside cools at the perfect rate.