Centrally located at UCLA’s Court of Sciences, Magnify strives to enhance the vibrant culture of entrepreneurship at UCLA and the broader Los Angeles region. Featuring flexible co-working laboratory and office spaces, Magnify was built with one goal in mind: to help startups succeed by vastly accelerating their access to facilities while increasing their capital efficiency and market opportunities.
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September 26, 2023 | Magnify incubator company, Partillion Bioscience announces financing and partnership
The Magnify incubator at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA is celebrating the growth of one of its companies. Partillion Bioscience is a venture-backed life science company commercializing Nanovials, a next generation single-cell analysis platform....
August 14, 2023 | New study identifies genes linked to high production of key antibody
A collaboration led by UCLA and the Seattle Children’s Research Institute has yielded new knowledge about the genes responsible for the production and release of immunoglobulin G, the most common type of antibody in the human body. The finding has the potential to...
July 6, 2023 | An exceptional partnership: How CNSI’s Magnify Internship Program is helping UCLA students “Thrive”
Last year funding from the state of California was provided to the California Institutes for Science& Innovation, including the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, known at CNSI, to create workforce development programs focused on providing necessary...
June 13, 2023 | UCLA Computer Scientist Receives Major International Semiconductor Award
A member of the UCLA faculty since 1990, Cong was selected to receive the award at the May 8 event in Tel Aviv for his groundbreaking research and development that “revolutionized electronic design automation and FPGA [field-programmable gate array] design methods,...
June 12, 2023 | Ready, Set … Accelerate!
UCLA has a long history of nurturing business prospects generated by both students and faculty. But the rise of the incubators is a more engineered process. It was sparked in 2007, when Chancellor Gene Block and Governor Gray Davis agreed to promote closer links...
May 11, 2023 | When stem cells can’t roll on a bumpy road, muscles break down
In a study recently published in npj Regenerative Medicine, a group of researchers led by biochemists at UCLA show for the first time that scarring to the collagen framework that carries these healing cells causes muscles to gradually stop working in Duchenne muscular...
May 9, 2023 | New findings from UCLA researchers related to muscle fibrosis show potential implication for cell therapies
The research findings from the team of UCLA scientists demonstrated that laminin scarring is harmful to stem cell function. Laminins are a family of glycoproteins of the extracellular matrix of all animals. They are major components of the basal lamina, cells which...
January 18, 2023 | Internship provides undergrads hands-on experience in start-up company environment
Starting this fall over a dozen undergraduate students were selected for a new internship program where they have been matched with a current start-up company in CNSI’s Magnify incubator for a hands-on experience lasting the academic school year. The internship...
December 13, 2022 | Go ahead: Tell Gaurav Sant his ideas won’t work
With an eye toward providing remedies for climate change, he and his colleagues take approaches to removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere that are considered unlikely by some. Several of his projects have emerged from UCLA’s labs to spawn startups that are...
May 25, 2022 | Lactation Lab receives FDA Breakthrough Device designation for breast-milk-testing device that allows mothers to test for key nutritional elements in their milk
This first-of-its-kind breast-milk - (point of care) - test allows mothers to test for key macronutrients (fat, protein, carbohydrates and adjust their nutritional intake accordingly. The test was developed for use in the NICU, hospital clinics, milk banks and home...
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