UCLA bioengineering professors and alumni have developed a more accurate COVID-19 testing kit using a new RNA extraction technique. Daniel Kamei, a bioengineering professor at the UCLA Samueli School ...

A UCLA professor received a grant to develop a new treatment that could make COVID-19 vaccines more effective. Song Li, the chair of Samueli School of Engineering’s bioengineering department, received ...

Six years ago, a Santa Monica library teen publication featured a poem called "Manhood" by Nikan Namiri. "Tomorrow is the day I graduate, the day I will come alive," the young author wrote. And that ...

UCLA bioengineers have demonstrated that a gel-like material containing tiny magnetic particles could be used to manage chronic pain from disease or injury. Broadly, the study demonstrates the ...

Engineers at UCLA have begun using 3D printing and laser cutting equipment to produce surgical face shields in an effort to meet the rapidly growing demand for personal protective equipment for health ...

A team of bioengineers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has invented a novel soft and flexible self-powered bioelectronic device. The technology converts human body motions — from bending an ...

Jun Chen is an assistant professor of bioengineering at UCLA who just developed a wearable sign language interpreting glove. He hopes it can be used by the deaf community to communicate with anyone.

WESTWOOD (CBSLA) — Engineers at the University of California Los Angeles have started using 3D printing and laser cutting equipment to produce surgical face shields in response to the coronavirus ...