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Bioengineering Reaches Milestone with First
Graduating Class
Article written by Matthew Chin
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Congratulations to Professor Daniel Kamei for
receiving the Early Career Award from the Wallace H. Coulter
Foundation
Congratulations to Professor Daniel Kamei for
receiving the HSSEAS Northrop Grumman Teaching Award
Professor Kamei will receive the award at the
Recognition Dinner on November 2, 2007.
Congratulations to Professor Daniel Kamei for
receiving the Professor of the Year Award presented by the
Engineering Society of the University of California, Los Angeles
(ESUC).
Professor Kamei will receive the award at the
Senior Dinner held on Friday, June 1, 2007.
Bioengineering students receive the Dean's
Prize for Outstanding Research Presentation at the 10th Annual
Science Poster Day held on May 21, 2007.
Edward (Hoa) Pham
Kunal Mehta
UCLA Researchers Discover Novel Polymeric Vesicles
That Can Cross Cell Membranes
The research labs of Professors Timothy Deming
and Daniel Kamei have recently demonstrated in vitro
that their novel polymeric vesicles can transport dye-labeled
dextran into both epithelial and endothelial cells without
being toxic(Nat. Mater. 6
(2007) 52-57). These vesicles were formed from a block copolymer
comprised of 60 arginine residues followed by 20 leucine residues.
Although arginine-rich polypeptides have been shown in the
past to transport payloads across cells, they did not self
assemble into vesicles, and were toxic to cells when they
contained greater than 20 arginine residues. In contrast to
conjugating a polyarginine peptide to an existing vesicle,
the polyarginine block of these novel block copolymers drive
both vesicular assembly as well as cellular entry. As expected,
this behavior is specific to arginine, and vesicles formed
from polylysine-polyleucine block copolymers, as well as nonencapsulated
dye-labeled dextran, exhibit little to no uptake by cells.
Congratulations to Professor Jacob Schmidt
for Receiving the NSF Career Award
(read
UCLA Engineer article PDF)
UCLA Researchers Discover No-slip Condition
Does Not Hold at the Nanoscale
UCLA Engineer article about
Professors Benjamin Wu, James Dunn, CJ Kim
(read
article PDF)
UCLA Researchers Transform Stem Cells Found
in Human Fat Into Smooth Muscle Cells...Worldwide
News
| July
30 |
MedIndia
(India), UCLA
Researchers Transform Stem cells From Fat tissues Into
Smooth Muscle, collaboration between medicine and
bioengineering professor Ben Wu featured. |
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| July 26 |
Scenta.co.uk
- London, England, UK, New
source of stem cells from adults, bioengineering professor
Ben Wu’s work featured, Wu quoted. |
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| July 25 |
Hindustan
Times, Scientists
turn fat tissue into muscle cells, collaboration between
medicine and bioengineering professor Ben Wu featured. |
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| July 25 |
ScienceAgoGo,
Building
Muscle from Fatty Stem Cells, collaboration between
medicine and bioengineering professor Ben Wu featured. |
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| July 25 |
newKerala.com,
Scientists
turn fat tissue into muscle cells, collaboration between
medicine and bioengineering professor Ben Wu featured. |
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| July 25 |
Science
Daily, Researchers
Transform Stem Cells Found in Human Fat into Smooth Muscle
Cells, collaboration between medicine and bioengineering
professor Ben Wu featured. |
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| July 21 |
Newswise,
Researchers
Transform Stem Cells Found in Human Fat into Smooth Muscle
Cells, collaboration between medicine and bioengineering
professor Ben Wu featured. |
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| July 24 |
PhysOrg.com,
Researchers
transform stem cells found in human fat into smooth muscle
cells, collaboration between medicine and bioengineering
professor Ben Wu featured. |
UCLA Researchers Transform Stem Cells Found
in Human Fat Into Smooth Muscle Cells
UCLA News article
about Professor Benjamin Wu's research
(read
article on UCLA News Website) (read
article PDF)
Congratulations Dean Vijay Dhir on your election
into the National Academy of Engineering!
UCLA Engineering Dean Vijay K. Dhir Elected
to the Pretigious National Academy of Engineering (read
article)
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