Kevin Healy, professor of bioengineering and materials science and engineering, leads Berkeley’s role in a new craniofacial research center, C-DOCTOR. UC Berkeley is part of a California-based, six-university consortium that has been awarded $12 million by the National Institutes of Health to develop strategies for treating craniofacial defects, which affect millions of Americans.
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Assistant Professor Faculty Position In Mechanical and Aerospace…
The University of California at Davis has a tenure-track position available in the area of Prosthetics. The appointment is at the Assistant Professor level in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering.
NASA Funds 2 New Research Institutes to Help Humanity Explore Deep Space
NASA will spend up to $30 million over the next five years to set up and support two new institutes dedicated to helping humanity extend its footprint out into the solar system. The two Space Technology Research Institutes – each of which will receive up to $15 million of NASA funding over a five-year “period of performance” – will aim to develop new technologies in the fields of biomanufacturing and materials, agency officials said.
The micromotor device may someday be used to deliver antibiotics to the stomach.
A tiny self-propelled drug-delivery device might someday make taking antibiotics safer and more efficient. Think of it as a tiny submarine scooting around inside your stomach, fueled by the acid there.
This Tiny Submarine Cruises Inside A Stomach To Deliver Drugs
A tiny self-propelled drug-delivery device might someday make taking antibiotics safer and more efficient. Think of it as a tiny submarine scooting around inside your stomach, fueled by the acid there.
The California drought is on its way out, but deeper droughts lie ahead
After a week of being walloped by major storms that have dumped copious rain and snow on the state, California is finally emerging from a deep, years-long drought. Ski resorts in the Sierra Nevada mountains are flush with snow, while key reservoirs have filled back up .
Comments of the Week #142: from the speed of light to fundamental constants [Starts With A Bang]
Cosmic rarities, like merging galaxies and gravitational lensing phenomena can be seen in this section of the GOODS/ERS2 field. Image credit: NASA, ESA, R. Windhorst, S. Cohen, M. Mechtley, and M. Rutkowski , R. O’Connell , P. McCarthy , N. Hathi , R. Ryan , H. Yan , and A. Koekemoer .