August 20, 2026
August 20, 2026 —
UC San Diego bioengineers developed an online tool, Primer PICKR, that helps biomedical researchers solve a well-known and persistent laboratory challenge: successfully measuring gene expression within a cell by way of reverse-transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction, or RT-qPRC.
August 19, 2026
August 19, 2026 —
Toward lab tests and medical delivery, on the same microneedle patch.
August 18, 2026
August 18, 2026 —
Electrical engineers from UC San Diego have developed inexpensive custom tiles that can be used to reflect millimeter wave signals in ways that address path obstruction issues and improve wireless network coverage.
August 17, 2026
August 17, 2026 —
A new generation of bioelectronic technologies that integrate biology with advanced semiconductor systems will be developed at UC San Diego through a research contract from DARPA.
August 7, 2026
August 7, 2026 —
Engineers have developed a strain of a common bacterial species that can feed exclusively on the three major sugars present in corn stalks. This work has exciting implications for the future of biomanufacturing.
July 30, 2026
July 30, 2026 —
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded University of California San Diego researchers a six-year $18M grant to fund a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) focused on making new kinds of quantum materials.
July 30, 2026
July 30, 2026 —
Chemically tailored superlattices are one of the two primary research themes of the UC San Diego Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), which is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). These superlattices are atoms-thin sheets with unique electronic properties.
July 30, 2026
July 30, 2026 —
Quantum metamaterials are one of the two research themes of the UC San Diego Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), which is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Quantum metamaterials are a cutting-edge subset of metamaterials.
July 27, 2026
July 27, 2026 —
On June 28, 2026, 130 guests gathered to celebrate the 95th birthdays of Professor Shu Chien, one of the founding figures of modern biomedical engineering, and his wife, Dr. Kuang-Chung Hu Chien (K.C. Chien), a pediatrician whose career served some of the most underprivileged communities in America.
July 24, 2026
July 24, 2026 —
Rahul Parhi, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, has received the 2026 Vasil A. Popov Prize. This prize recognizes distinguished research accomplishments in approximation theory and related areas of mathematics.
