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Combining Signals Could Make for Better Control of Prosthetics

A UC Davis team is combining muscle bulge and electrical signals to make prosthetic hands smarter and more natural. With 97% gesture accuracy, their EMG-FMG fusion could be a game-changer for prosthetics, robotics and virtual reality control.

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Seeing Light in 'Impossible' Places

Biomedical engineers at the University of California, Davis, have developed a fast and cost-effective microscopy system capable of imaging depths previously impossible to reach in scattering tissues, such as bone and the brain.

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Analyzing Breath Shows How Smoking, Vaping and Marijuana Affect Airway Health

UC Davis engineering researcher Cristina Davis and UC Davis Health scientists used breath analysis to uncover how smoking, vaping and marijuana affect lung inflammation. Their findings reveal unique biological markers for each substance, offering a noninvasive tool to monitor airway health.


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Pathway and Careers in Motorsports at UC Davis

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BME Seminar Series: Coming Home to Share the Journey: Pushing the Boundaries of Hybrid PET Imaging

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Emma Bernard Selected for DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program
The materials science and engineering Ph.D. student will spend a year at Advanced Light Source, a science user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to image magnetic spin textures in three dimensions and use advanced algorithms to reconstruct their magnetization vectors, which could lead to revolutionizing how information is stored and processed.
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UC Davis Hosts Annual NorCal Control Workshop
Organized by assistant professors Shima Nazari of mechanical and aerospace engineering and Matt Ellis of chemical engineering, the event brought together over 100 researchers from Stanford and the UC campuses of Davis, Berkeley, Merced and Santa Cruz, to discuss the current challenges and future directions in automation, systems and controls.
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Discussing Ways to Improve the Built Environment
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Sabbie Miller was the featured guest on the National Science Foundation’s Discovery Files podcast, which explores the latest scientific breakthroughs, to discuss her research on next-generation building materials capable of capturing carbon from the air.

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