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Tiny Test Tubes

January 25, 2013 – Startup company Biopico Systems is pushing the boundaries of the “lab on a chip” concept to picoliter scale. Founder John Collins and his staff are tapping the pumping and mixing capabilities of biofluidics to engineer a tiny chip that can process millions of
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Design and Discovery

January 14, 2013 – As winter quarter at UC Irvine begins, 100 undergraduates from diverse majors are embarking on a cross-disciplinary experience that has the potential to benefit them long after the school year ends. They have been selected as Fellows in the Multidisciplinary D
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Rehab Rebooted

January 04, 2013 – The company may not be completely moved into its new headquarters but TechPortal’s most recent tenant already feels right at home in the CALIT2 Building. Flint Rehabilitation Devices – a partnership among two UC Irvine graduate students and their faculty advis
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Social Services

December 19, 2012 – Sandwiched between the room-sized computers of the 1940s and the smart phones currently in millions of pockets worldwide is an era of unprecedented technological advancement. Equally significant is the accompanying social revolution. A new multidisciplinary c
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