New DNA Detectors Bridge the (Nano)Gap
A bio-nano breakthrough
at UC Berkeley may someday lead to devices that diagnose disease,
detect evidence of bioterrorism, and aid in the discovery of new
drugs. Most impressive though is that these devices will fit in
your pocket.
Stress-Free
Engineering
"The whole basis of my research is looking at why things break,"
says Professor of Materials Science Robert O. Ritchie. The most
recent structures he's studying can't be seen without a scanning
electron microscope though. Ritchie and his colleagues are
working to understand why tiny electromechanical machines, invisible to
the naked eye, are more prone to failure than engineers have
expected.
Diving Into
An Ocean Of Storage
Think locally, store globally. That's the aim of the Berkeley computer scientists who are pooling computing resources around the planet to create a massively-distributed hard drive. Aptly named OceanStore, the system could someday protect billions of users' data from earthquake, fire, or, well, a crashed hard disk.
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The
Heart of Tissue Engineering
How
do you mend a broken heart? That's the question being answered,
literally, by Berkeley materials scientists. Professor Kevin E.
Healy and graduate student Timothy V. Kirk are developing an injectable
gel rife with living cells and bioactive molecules that could
rebuild portions of a heart damaged by disease.  Multimedia
1970: Professor Wilbur Somerton and the Birth of the California
Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) Program
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