Lawrence Livermore Lab |
DARPA taps Lawrence Livermore Lab to restore touch to amputees
Lab will join collaborative research team that intends to build the world’s first neural system to enable naturalistic feeling and movements in prosthetic hands.
UCLA |
Google Glass app helps scientists analyze plants' health in seconds
Scientists from UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute have developed a Google Glass app that, when paired with a handheld device, enables the wearer to quickly analyze the health of a plant without damaging it.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |
Startup promises safe lithium batteries
Venture capital backs company — co-founded by a Berkeley Lab scientist —developing a battery using a nonflammable electrolyte.
UC Berkeley |
One-two punch could make western U.S. carbon-negative
Combining biomass electricity production with carbon capture could enable power generators to store more carbon than they emit.
UC Davis |
Tobacco-smoking parents increase diabetes risk for babies
Children exposed to tobacco smoke from their parents while in the womb are up to two to three times more likely to develop the disease.
UC Merced |
Gift establishes UC Merced Presidential Chair in the Humanities
Anonymous $500,000 donation, matched by UC president’s new fund, will establish $1 million endowment to provide leadership and vision for UC Merced research.
UCLA |
A salute to UCLA Freedom Riders and their history-making journey
Sixteen civil rights activists — all UCLA alumni — challenged segregation in the South in 1961 as Freedom Riders.
UC San Francisco |
Why do some targeted cancer drugs lose effectiveness?
Protein may be to blame; study suggests combination therapies could overcome drug resistance.
UC Newsroom |
UC awards $23 million to multicampus research collaborations
Grants will go to a diverse array of projects, from developing an implantable device that could correct memory impairment to an effort to help California better manage its water resources.
UC Newsroom |
UC plans to require vaccinations for incoming students
Incoming students will be screened for TB and vaccinated for measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, meningococcus, tetanus and whooping cough, under a plan set to take effect in 2017.
UC San Diego |
First satellite to view Earth from deep space set for launch
Seventeen-year quest to take non-stop look at sunlit side of Earth finally comes to fruition for Scripps scientist.
UC Berkeley |
Enthusiasm greets launch of new genomics initiative
UC Berkeley and UCSF scientists joined colleagues from the biopharmaceutical industry to celebrate the launch of the Innovative Genomics Initiative.