Eva Kanso, PhD Professor Z.H. Kaprielian Fellow in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Motile cilia are micron-scale hair-like protrusions from epithelial cells that beat collectively to transport fluid. On the tissue level, cilia serve diverse biological functions, such as mucociliary…

MEMS are becoming 3D and atomically precise Andrei M. Shkel, Ph.D. Professor Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering*, University of California, Irvine *joint appointments with Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Biomedical Engineering Microtechnology comes of age. Clearly, some significant advances have…