May 16, 2014 – Said Shokair was supposed to be a doctor. His high school test scores qualified him for medical school, which he entered at age 17 in his native Syria. Six months later, though, after chatting with an uncle who was a pediatric cardiologist at UCLA, he opted to com

May 15, 2014 – One wouldn’t expect the leaders of a company specializing in products for stroke patients to be in their mid-20s. But youth is clearly the genius behind Flint Rehabilitation Devices, a startup company headquartered in TechPortal, the CALIT2 technology busine

May 15, 2014 – Carl-SJR isn’t your typical-looking robot, if, in fact, there is such a thing. It doesn’t have arms and legs, or other human-like features, but it enjoys being touched and rubbed. It’s these traits that may just be what make the robot a winner with its target audi

May 14, 2014 – Asthma sufferers and others with pulmonary disorders are well acquainted with nebulizers. They’re those sometimes bulky gadgets, also known as inhalers, which disperse an aerosol stream of medication directly into the lungs. Unfortunately, though, most commercial