September 29, 2022
September 29, 2022 —
An international team of scientists, co-led by researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, has created the first pan-cancer mycobiome atlas—a survey of 35 types of cancer and their associated fungi.
September 26, 2022
September 26, 2022 —
Alumni startup attempts to make prostheses accessible and affordable.
September 26, 2022
September 26, 2022 —
UC San Diego alumna Deniz Burnham '07 reaches for the stars as a NASA astronaut candidate.
September 26, 2022
September 26, 2022 —
UC San Diego researchers have for the first time discovered a pattern of DNA mutations that links bladder cancer to tobacco smoking. The work could help identify what environmental factors, such as exposure to tobacco smoke and UV radiation, cause cancer in certain patients.
September 22, 2022
September 22, 2022 —
UC San Diego engineers developed microrobots, that can swim around in the lungs, deliver medication and be used to clear up life-threatening cases of bacterial pneumonia. In mice, the microrobots safely eliminated pneumonia-causing bacteria in the lungs and resulted in 100% survival.
September 22, 2022
September 22, 2022 —
Five UC San Diego bioengineering and bioinformatics graduate students have been honored as 2023 Siebel Scholars. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes the most talented students in the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, bioengineering and energy science.
September 20, 2022
September 20, 2022 —
UC San Diego researchers developed soft devices containing algae that glow in the dark when experiencing mechanical stress, such as being squished, stretched, twisted or bent. The devices do not need electronics to produce light, making them useful for building soft robots for deep sea exploration.
September 19, 2022
September 19, 2022 —
A multidisciplinary team led by researchers at UC San Diego has received $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a novel system to study and inform the treatment of chronic low back pain.
September 19, 2022
September 19, 2022 —
Monitoring the amount of oxygen in your blood could one day be done using your smartphone, shows a study by the University of California San Diego and University of Washington. This could help patients keep an eye on conditions that make it harder to absorb oxygen, such as asthma and COVID-19.
September 15, 2022
September 15, 2022 —
The current U.S. trajectory to decouple from China on clean energy technologies can harm national and global efforts to mitigate climate change, reveals a new University of California San Diego study published in Science.
