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Welcome to the Gharib Research Group

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and solidity of our possessions.
      —Thomas Henry Huxley on the reception of the Origin of Species
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bulletCaltech Scientists Show Function of Helical Band in Heart. Scientists from the Caltech have created images of the heart's muscular layer that show, for the first time, the connection between the configuration of those muscles and the way the human heart contracts.. Read more... 12-01-08

bulletCaltech Invention Earns R&D 100 Award. Making the list this year was work conceived by Morteza Gharib and his team, including Emilio Graff (PhD '07) and postdoctoral fellow Francisco Pereira. The team designed a three-dimensional camera with a vast array of possibilities, ranging from 3-D movement tracking for rehabilitation to underwater surveillance. Read more... 09-02-08

 bulletAn engineer comparing the human adult heart and the embryo heart might never guess that the former developed from the latter. But new results from Gharib's Group published in Science show that the embryonic vertebrate heart tube is a dynamic suction pump. Blood flows through it by a dynamic suction action (similar to the action of the mature left ventricle) that arises from wave motions in the tube. Read more... 05-04-06

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