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Viviana Gradinaru

October 17, 2023

Viviana Gradinaru (BS '05) Named Director of the Merkin Institute

February 27, 2023

Watson Lecture on March 1: Mory Gharib (PhD '83) on Harnessing the Waves of the Heart to Help Measure Health

An artist's concept of cells being aligned by ultrasound. Spheres with different appearances line up in troughs and peaks of waves.

February 23, 2023

Making engineered cells dance to ultrasound

An artist's concept of a smart pill traveling through the digestive tract. A pill containing a circuit board is shown passing along the villi of the intestines.

February 13, 2023

Smart Pills to Help Diagnose Gut Disorders

Cell imagery from the lab of Lu Wei. Super-resolution and volumetric tissue imaging by specialized microscopy can map chemical vibrations from proteins in the brain.

December 26, 2022

New Points of View: Caltech Imaging Research Reveals the Unseen

Cartoon mouse with a thought bubble of a cupcake

November 29, 2022

Gut Microbes Influence Binge-Eating of Sweet Treats in Mice

Headshots of five people arranged in a row

October 4, 2022

Five Caltech Researchers Receive High-Risk, High-Reward Awards

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July 8, 2022

New Caltech vaccine candidate broadly targets COVID-19 and SARS-causing viruses

Richard Merkin

May 30, 2019

Caltech Launches Merkin Institute for Translational Science