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We Might Not Know Half of What’s in Our Cells, New AI Technique Reveals

November 24, 2021

Artificial intelligence-based technique reveals previously unknown cell components that may provide new clues to human development and disease.

Neurobiologists Reveal How Value Decisions are Coded into Our Brains

November 23, 2021

A new study is showing how value choices are recorded in our brains. Researchers found that persistency allows value signals to be most effectively represented, or “coded,” across different areas of the brain, especially in a critical area within the cerebrum known as the retrosplenial cortex.

COVID Gets Airborne

November 22, 2021

In May 2021, the Centers for Disease Control officially recognized that SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—is airborne. Now UC San Diego Professor and Endowed Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry Rommie Amaro has modeled the delta virus inside an aerosol for the first time.

How Well Do Wet Masks Contain Droplets?

November 22, 2021

A team of international researchers modeled what happens to respiratory droplets when they come in contact with wet masks; their results show that damp masks are still effective at stopping these droplets from escaping the mask and being atomized into smaller, easier-to-spread aerosolized particles.

51 UC San Diego Researchers among Most Highly Cited in World in 2021 Clarivate Listing

November 18, 2021

Fifty-one faculty members and researchers at the University of California San Diego have been cited as among the world’s most influential in their fields, according to the 2021 Clarivate listing of Most Highly Cited Researchers in the World.   

This Tool Protects Your Private Data While You Browse

November 18, 2021

A team of computer scientists at the University of California San Diego and Brave Software. have developed a tool that will increase protections for users’ private data while they browse the web.

UC San Diego Opens the Design and Innovation Building

November 18, 2021

As a billion-dollar research enterprise in the heart of one of the most densely concentrated innovation hubs in the nation, UC San Diego is a unique place where fresh ideas are translated into solutions to benefit society.

SOARS Readies for Flight

November 18, 2021

A new miniature ocean is being constructed on UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography campus, housed under the distinctive wave-shaped roof of its iconic Hydraulics Laboratory.

UC San Diego Welcomes Native American Medical Students with Blanket Ceremony

November 18, 2021

As an intimate crowd gathered in the courtyard of the Medical Education and Telemedicine Building, an excited energy filled the space. It would be a night of firsts for the UC San Diego School of Medicine. When attention finally turned to the center podium, a group of medical students huddled together in the audience, smiling in anticipation.

UC San Diego Celebrates Hidden History of US Innovation with Exhibit of 19th Century Patent Models

November 18, 2021

Through the spring of 2022, UC San Diego’s Design and Innovation Building is hosting a historic exhibition of 19th-century patent models in partnership with Hagley Museum and Library, sponsored by Qualcomm Incorporated. Patent Models: A Celebration of American Invention showcases the breadth and depth of American industry and ingenuity.
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