May 15, 2024
Caltech neuroscientists are making promising progress toward showing that a device known as a brain–machine interface (BMI), which they developed to implant into the brains of patients who have lost the ability to speak, could one day help all such patients communicate by simply thinking and not speaking or miming.
May 13, 2024
When an embryo is 1 day old and composed of just two cells, only one of those cells will almost exclusively give rise to the fetal body.
May 8, 2024
New research finds that the genome reconfigures itself to place highly transcribed genes in close proximity to enzymes, increasing efficiency in RNA splicing.
May 7, 2024
Carver Mead (BS '56, PhD '60) was recognized for his role as the father of neuromorphic engineering, a field that takes inspiration from the computational processes of brains and neural processing.
May 6, 2024
To turn jellyfish into deep sea scientists, John Dabiri (PhD ’05), Caltech’s Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, first needed to ensure they could swim for several days with the necessary tiny electronic devices attached to them. He was going to need a bigger tank.
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May 17, 2024
1:00 pm
Medical Engineering Thesis Defense, Kuang Ming (Allen) Shang
Kuang Ming (Allen) Shang,
Ph.D. Candidate (Med-EE Joint Track),
Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering, Caltech MEMS Lab,
California Institute of Technology,
May 20, 2024
2:30 pm
PhD Thesis Defense
Karen Orta,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Caltech,
May 21, 2024
4:00 pm
Wiersma Visiting Professor Lecture: Dr. Kathleen Rockland
Dr. Kathleen Rockland,
Research Professor,
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology,
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine,
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