Macular Degeneration
New sight for those who are blinded by macular degeneration may be moving closer to the list of medical miracles. In the young field of regenerative medicine, a UCSF scientist has...
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Cell Migration and Signalling
Having access to advanced microfabrication and nanotechnology is essential for these sophisticated perturbations of cell signaling, and having the ability to do this locally and interactively makes these projects possible for our primarily cell biology-focused lab...
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Neural Nanotechnology
Microglia are resident immune cells in the brain, responsible for the innate immune response. They become readily activated in response to brain injuries in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, leading to release of a variety of soluble factors, which could be proinflammatory in nature and...
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