Today in L.A.
This out of UC Irvine. … A paralyzed man is able to walk thanks to amazing technology and a dedicated team.
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Transparent human cells turn a classic sci-fi story into reality
Alon Gorodetsky is the paper’s lead author and an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UC Irvine. He tells Inverse that his goal is to eventually use this technology to make HUMAN SKIN TRANSPARENT too, which could have implications for cosmetic surgery or cell imaging. But also just because it’s cool. … “Our engineered human cells work almost the same way, as far as we can tell, as the natural leucophore cells in squid skin,” he says.
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The horrors of TMJ: Chronic pain, metal jaws, and futile treatments
Kyriacos Athanasiou, a biomedical engineering professor at the University of California, Irvine, said it was because TMJ disorders are more prevalent among women that they were historically dismissed as neither serious nor complex, slowing research into the cause and treatment. The resulting dearth of knowledge, which is glaring when compared with other joints, has been "a huge disservice" to patients, Athanasiou said.
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The hype behind the gas industry’s hydrogen push
Green Tech Media reported that “The Road Map to a US Hydrogen Economy” was described as “agnostic” by Jack Brouwer, a professor at the University of California at Irvine and director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center, when it comes to the source of hydrogen (methane versus water).
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The Top 20 Coolest Schools 2021
2. University of California, Irvine
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The Man Who Wants Your Car to Power Your Home—and Save the Grid
“Real-world deployment of bidirectional charging is essential for gathering the data, and the technical and customer adaptation insights needed to scale V2H deployment across the grid,” said Prof. Scott Samuelsen, project director and founding director of the UCI Advanced Power and Energy Program. Read More
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Team Supercharged Cells With Mitochondrial Transplantation
“Mitochondria are the engines that drive many activities performed by our cells,” said first author Paria Ali Pour, a UCI Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering.
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Top 5: How Cold Spray Technology Offers Faster Additive Manufacturing
Top 4: A Scientist’s Perspective On 3D Printing for Biological Research. Interviews are a valued method to gain insight into a topic, including manufacturing and science, in an accessible and interesting way – this video certainly shows that!
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The horrors of TMJ: Chronic pain, metal jaws, and futile treatments
Kyriacos Athanasiou, a biomedical engineering professor at the University of California, Irvine, said it was because TMJ disorders are more prevalent among women that they were historically dismissed as neither serious nor complex, slowing research into the cause and treatment. The resulting dearth of knowledge, which is glaring when compared with other joints, has been "a huge disservice" to patients, Athanasiou said.
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Team Orange County
Teaming up for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition in Fall 2015, students from the University of California, Irvine; Chapman University; Irvine Valley College and Saddleback College are building Casa del Sol, a Spanish-inspired, net-zero, solar-powered house for Southern California. Comprised of a research institution, a private university, and two community colleges, Team Orange County incorporates a broad range of perspectives and educational backgrounds.
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This Startup Raised Over $10 Million To Make Metal Manufacturing More Efficient And Sustainable
Foundation Alloy, a vertically integrated metal part production platform, announced it has raised a $10.5 million seed funding round ….
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Taps run dry as water crisis forces Iran to consider evacuating its capital
Amir AghaKouchak, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Irvine, said climate change has exacerbated the problem, but the biggest issue is how water use is governed. “This narrative of climate change is responsible, to be honest, is not really accurate,” AghaKouchak said, adding that Iran has weathered drought throughout its history. Read More
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The High-Stakes Race to Build More Ventilators
Along the way, [Kevin] Zagorski and his colleagues took direction from the Bridge Ventilator Consortium, an ad hoc group of doctors and engineers based at UC Irvine and the University of Texas Austin. The consortium coined the term “bridge ventilator,” for a simple device with fewer capabilities than the more complex machines typically used in hospitals, but good enough for many patients with relatively mild issues, including some Covid-19 patients. “Not everyone needs the Cadillac,” says Govind Rajan, an anesthesiologist at the UC Irvine Medical Center.
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The Compost: How a local university ended up on the front lines of the hydrogen debate
UC Irvine is home to the National Fuel Cell Research Center, which has been testing hydrogen for years. The center is led by Jack Brouwer, an engineering professor at UCI who’s studied hydrogen for 25 years. Brouwer’s team has worked with SoCalGas on other projects, and he told me this next test seemed a natural fit. … SoCalGas hopes to install an electrolyzer at UC Irvine to make hydrogen by shooting an electrical current (powered by the state grid) through water and splitting hydrogen from oxygen.