According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 1.3 million people died from TB in 2022. Now a CNSI at UCLA member Mireille Kamariza (@UCLAengineering ) has developed a test to detect the bacteria that causes TB quickly, precisely, and inexpensively!

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TECH CENTER ANNOUNCEMENT: The CNSI at UCLA Living Biofoundry—established with U.S. National Science Foundation funding through the BioPACIFIC MIP—has unveiled new resources aimed at enhancing chemical separation and analysis techniques 🔬
Read the full announcement
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EICN at CNSI has added a significant enhancement in electron microscope usability and efficiency through new CryoSPARC software—implemented with the center's powerful FEI (Thermo Fisher) Titan Krios G1 transmission electron microscope.
Full #announcement :
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Congrats to the 2024 UCLA Samueli University of California V.M. Watanabe Excellence in Research awardee Aydogan Ozcan, professor of UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering and UCLA Bioengineering, and of CNSI at UCLA! #engineerchange samueli.ucla.edu/2024-excellenc…

Exciting breakthrough from CNSI at UCLA members Dino Di Carlo (@UCLAengineering) & Owen Witte (@UCLAHealth) in personalized #immunotherapy ! Supported by NIH, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Elman Fund, and CNSI Mann Foundation. Nanovials available from Partillion Bioscience:
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CNSI members Sergio Carbajo (Sergio Carbajo UCLA Samueli Engineering) and Prineha Narang (@naranglab UCLA Chem & Biochem) were recently featured on Voice of America, discussing their research developing highly-sensitive sensors to detect environmental changes!🔬🌱☁️

Learn more:
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We're excited to share the latest Elman Fund seminar from @ucla professor Timothy Fisher, Ph.D. (@uclaengineering), featuring an update on his project with R. Mitchell Spearrin (@uclaengineering) and Yves Rubin (@uclachem) 🎥
Watch the seminar here:
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Today, computers use electron movement to encode & process data. In the future, they could use ripples in magnetic fields called magnons to do it. Scientists UCLA & partners caused magnons to interact in a way that's a crucial step towards computing: newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/magne…

Sergio Carbajo (UCLA Samueli Engineering CNSI at UCLA Sergio Carbajo) recently co-led a workshop with the U.S. Department of Energy on novel radiation and particle sources, and contributed to a collab report on laser tech with U.S. National Science Foundation and Department of Defense 🇺🇸 🔬

Learn more:
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UCLA prof Prineha Narang (UCLA Chem & Biochem CNSI at UCLA @naranglab) was recently featured in Physics World ! She delves into the intricate realm of condensed matter and quantum physics, shedding light on the details—and challenges—of her research journey:
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Congrats to Prof. Anne Andrew, who rec'd a Fulbright Specialist Award to complete a project at The Czech Academy of Sciences! Learn about her exiting research in this new video below! Read more about the award here: chemistry.ucla.edu/news/fulbright… Anne Andrews Physical Sciences UCLA UCLA Newsroom

The 2023 Tolman Award recipient is Professor Sarah H. Tolbert, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles for her research in Nanoscience and Materials Chemistry.

Congratulations, Professor Tolbert!

#scalacs #tolmanaward

We'll see you today at noon for the next Elman Family Foundation Innovation Fund Seminar Series—featuring project leads and UCLA faculty Timothy Fisher, Yves Rubin, and R. Mitchell Spearrin!

Learn more and RSVP (for free!) in the link below:
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Most coronaviruses cause the sniffles. But the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 does far worse. A team led by UCLA scientists using tools SLAC found that even when the virus seems defeated, it can leave fragments that crank up the immune system: newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/viral…

Calling all high school students interested in #nanoscience research!🔬

Join us this June for Nanoscale Microscopy, a one-week immersive course led by scientists at our CNSI at UCLA Technology Centers:

Learn more and apply here!
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How can we make affordable diagnostic tests for deadly diseases available to low- and middle-income communities? UCLA bioengineering Asst. Prof. Mireille Kamariza UCLA Bioengineering says the idea of applying chemical principles to designing biological tools inspired her research.

.Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Initiative announced a $4M grant to support multi-institutional research on cell behaviors and their relation to immunity. UCLA Prof. Dino Di Carlo UCLA Bioengineering UCLAMechAeroEng UCLAJCCC CNSI at UCLA will lead the LA team's research. samueli.ucla.edu/ucla-samueli-t…

The Chuck Lorre Family Foundation makes a BIGGER bang with $24.5 million more to support UCLA’s STEM students. The gift DOUBLES the number of Bruins eligible for undergrad scholarships, grad school funding and wraparound services. And that’s no bazinga! newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/chuck-…

Learn more about the mysteries of #quantum phenomena with UCLA professor and CNSI at UCLA member Prineha Narang and the incredible team at NarangLab in the video spotlight below! 🔬
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The UCLA Institute for Carbon Management and Equatic Equatic.tech will build the world’s largest ocean-based carbon removal plant in Singapore, supported by Singapore’s national water agency PUB PUB.  #engineerchange #carboncapture
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