How Toni Morrison helped an economics professor turn grief into art

“Airhead” robot uses pneumatic RAM to play piano

UC Riverside scientists will use a $2 million NIH grant to study the brain’s locus coeruleus

Repeated tests showed a similar amount of drug release per activation, confirming robust control of release rate

Hydrogen bonds reshape peptides to move electrons a million times faster than previously known

The purely electrical technique captures cell-free DNA from the surface of a sample

Glass tuning-fork-shaped tubing gives accurate, continuous measurements of drug dissolution

Osmotic therapy device reduces swelling to prevent secondary injuries in rats

While quarantined bakers discover sourdough starters, bioengineers tweak yeast to produce compounds that could fight cancer

UC Riverside engineers are developing low-temperature plasma technology to sterilize masks

Work on selective immune system suppression in influenza could transfer directly to COVID-19

New technology can find the safest way to store and dispose of reactive chemicals

Dimitrios Morikis, UC Riverside Professor of Bioengineering, passed away May 27, 2019. Professor Morikis is well known for his work in immunophysics and immunoengineering, where he used physics and engineering approaches to understand molecular mechanisms of immunology, develop disease models, and design new drugs and molecular sensors for autoimmune and...

This future PepsiCo associate was raised without her parents since the age of 9. Her resiliency transformed into grit

“Chronoprints” can identify a sample from a video taken as it reacts to disturbance

Spies can learn what a machine is making from the sounds it makes

The tissue will be used to study neurological diseases

The device aims to reduce brain swelling and deliver a neuroprotective drug

Inspired by a musical instrument, the simple sensor can be constructed from common materials and used to detect adulterated or counterfeit drugs

Project to embed patient data directly in biological samples receives Gates Foundation funding