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UC San Diego Health Recognized for Leadership in Environmental Sustainability

UC San Diego Health was honored with six different awards for its health care sustainability efforts by Practice Greenhealth.

Super Low-cost Smartphone Attachment Brings Blood Pressure Monitoring to Your Fingertips

UC San Diego engineers have developed a super low-cost 3D-printed attachment that clips over a smartphone's camera and flash to measure blood pressure at the user's fingertip. Researchers say it could help make regular blood pressure monitoring easy, affordable and accessible.

$2.5M Gift Targets Gaps in Circadian Biology and Medicine

A $2.5 million initiative supported by philanthropists Irwin and Joan Jacobs has created the Stuart and Barbara L. Brody Endowed Chair in Circadian Biology and Medicine, along with a supporting research fund, to target largely unexplored areas related to circadian biology and patient health.

UC San Diego First to Test Cancer Drugs in Space Using Private Astronaut Mission

The latest space experiments from UC San Diego and Axiom Space will explore therapies for breast and colorectal cancer aboard the ISS, and monitor astronauts’ stem cell health over time.

A New Map Reveals the Complicated World in Which Cells Seek to Repair Damaged DNA

UC San Diego scientists develop an interactive software that enables scientists to better investigate the DNA damage response.

New Study Shows Noninvasive Brain Imaging Can Distinguish Among Hand Gestures

Researchers have found a way to distinguish among hand gestures that people are making by examining only data from noninvasive brain imaging, without information from the hands. The results are an early step in a safe brain-computer interface that may one day help patients with movement challenges.