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Kent and Joyce Kresa Endow Professorial Chair at Caltech
Kent and Joyce Kresa have pledged $2 million to endow the Joyce and Kent Kresa Professorship in Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech. More...
Mechanics: Nano Meets Quantum
Physicists at Caltech have developed a new tool that can be used to search for quantum effects in an ordinary object. More...
Caltech Researchers Explore How Cells Reconcile Mixed Messages in Decisions About Growth
The cells in our body are constantly receiving mixed messages. An epithelial cell might be exposed to one signal telling it to divide and, simultaneously, another telling it to stop dividing. The tug-of-war between these two sets of influences, and the effects they have on tissue growth, are explained and explored in a paper authored by scientists from Caltech and published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. More...
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