3D Printing In Vivo Using Sound
1 month ago
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Professor Paul S. Weiss, graduate student Jason Williams, and two Weiss group alumni are part of a research team that has developed an imaging-guided ultrasound 3D printing platform. This technology […]

New aerogel tech helps keep windows cool by releasing heat
2 months ago
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Professor Sarah Tolbert is part of a UCLA research team developing innovative technology aimed at reducing energy consumption in buildings. Their work is featured in a new video from the […]

Sensor technology uses nature’s blueprint and machinery to monitor metabolism in body
3 months ago
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Professor Chong Liu is part of an interdisciplinary research team that has developed sensor technology utilizing nature’s biochemical processes to continuously monitor multiple metabolites in the body, providing real-time insights […]

Houk group collaborates with David Baker’s group on a breakthrough in enzyme design – The design of effective serine hydrolases from scratch
4 months ago
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2024 Nobel Laureate Professor David Baker (University of Washington), along with 20 of his coworkers, and Professor Ken Houk and his former UCLA graduate student, Dr. Cooper Jamieson (Ph.D. ’21, […]

Garg and Houk groups report diradicaloid coupling in Nature
4 months ago
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UCLA organic chemistry laboratories led by Distinguished Professors Neil Garg and Ken Houk have reported a groundbreaking study in Nature. The groups demonstrate that two highly strained reactants, a cyclic allene […]

The Houk and Tang groups discover an organocatalytic Diels-Alderase in Nature
5 months ago
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Iminium-catalyzed cycloadditions are a hallmark of organocatalysis, a concept that David MacMillan famously coined as “LUMO-catalysis” when he and Benjamin List were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their […]

New copper-dependent enzyme catalyzes unprecedented halogenation reactions
5 months ago
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The Yi Tang group has discovered a new type of metal-containing enzyme from a natural fungus that can perform surprising halogenation reactions on organic molecules. The study, published in Nature, represents […]

Thorium film could replace crystals in atomic clocks of the near future
5 months ago
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Professor Anastassia Alexandrova is part of a team of UCLA physicists who have developed a new film that requires much less of the rare thorium-229 and is significantly less radioactive. […]
