Posts Tagged ‘Biomechanical’
Gatekeeping Proteins to Aberrant RNA: You Shall Not Pass
Mistakes happen. This is the case in the process of transporting genetic information in cells. How our cells keep errors in this process in check is the subject of a new paper by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
Read MoreSuitX’s Robot Suit Lets Paralyzed People Walk Again
SuitX, a Berkeley startup, has developed what promises to be the lightest, lowest-cost exoskeleton yet — a low-profile robotic suit that helps people who use wheelchairs stand up and walk.
Read MoreGraduate Student in ME Professor Mohammad Mofrad’s Lab Wins First Place in the 2016 Image Contest of the Biophysical Society Meeting
ME Graduate student Zeinab Jahed, a member of ME Professor Mohammad R. K. Mofrad’s lab, has won the first place prize in the 2016 Image Contest of the Biophysical Society Meeting. The image, titled “Bacterial Networking,” shows a scanning electron microscopy of Staphylococcus Aureus bacterial cells forming networks on top of poly-dimethyl-siloxane PDMS micro-posts. Congratulations,…
Read MoreME Professor Homayoon Kazerooni’s Lab Advances as a Top 20 Finalist in “Robotics for Good” Competition
The Berkeley Robotics & Human Engineering Laboratory’s medical exoskeleton, Phoenix, and its specific use for children with Cerebral Palsy, was named as one of the top 20 finalists in the Robotics for Good competition. Phoenix was chosen from a pool of 664 entries, from 121 countries, in December of 2015. The competition and judging ceremony…
Read MoreME Professor Mohammad R. K. Mofrad and ME Grad Student Mohaddeseh Peyro Reveal New Clues to How the Gatekeeper for the Cell Nucleus Works
ME Professor Mohammad R. K. Mofrad and ME graduate student Mohaddeseh Peyro, along with two other researchers, have released their findings today in a paper titled “Evolutionarily Conserved Sequence Features Regulate the Formation of the FG Network at the Center of the Nuclear Pore Complex.” The paper uncovers “new clues to how a molecular machine…
Read MoreME Professor Lydia Sohn Presents at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions
ME Professor Lydia Sohn presented an IdeasLab, Precision Medicine at UC Berkeley, with three other UC Berkeley Professors, Dan Fletcher, Amy Herr, and Ana Claudia Arias, at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions “Summer Davos” in Dalian, China. The session was moderated by NPR’s science correspondent, Joe Palca. At this same…
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