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Can a Digital Human Pass Down a Legacy?
Memoirs are static. Lectures are one-way. Books gather dust. What if wisdom talked back?
Jill Kato November 6, 2025
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Is This the End of Trial-and-Error Medicine?
An organ-on-a-chip that acutely mimics human biology may be the future of drug testing—and a long-overdue update to h...
Jill Kato October 7, 2025
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The Rise of Biotech Beauty
How a UC Irvine visiting Ph.D. student turned a rideshare pitch into a TIME100 company to overhaul the $430B beauty i...
Jill Kato September 10, 2025
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Fueling What’s Next
How FirstElement Fuel founded by UC Irvine alumni built the world’s most extensive hydrogen fueling network—and why t...
Jill Kato June 16, 2025
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What If Batteries Actually Worked the Way We Wanted?
UC Irvine-born startup Enevate is solving EVs’ biggest pain points.
Jill Kato June 16, 2025
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A Surgical Procedure Without the Surgery
UC Irvine professor of ophthalmology and biomedical engineering Tibor Juhasz spent 25 years perfecting a laser treatm...
Jill Kato June 11, 2025
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Birthing a Star to Save a Planet
Will UC Irvine-based TAE Technologies take nuclear fusion from science fiction to reality and solve the biggest exist...
Jill Kato June 11, 2025
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Breathing Room
UC Irvine Startup Makani Science Has Created the Most Important Medical Device You’ll Never Notice
Jill Kato May 23, 2025
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Born in California and Innovator Awards 2025
A Platform for Turning Research into Impact
Jill Kato May 23, 2025
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An AI That’s a Better Friend—And Maybe a Lifeline for Humanity
Bill Tomlinson’s AI doesn’t just chat. It remembers, it cares, and it might just help us save ourselves.
Jill Kato May 20, 2025