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Bioprinting a 3D Liver-Like Device to Detoxify the Blood

Science & Environment

Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a 3D-printed device inspired by the liver to remove dangerous toxins from the blood. The device, which is designed to be used outside the body -- much like dialysis – uses nanoparticles to trap pore-forming toxins that can damage cellular membranes and are a key factor in illnesses that result from animal bites and stings, and bacterial infections. Their findings were published May 8 in the journal Nature Communications.

Bioprinting a 3D Liver-Like Device to Detoxify the Blood

Unlocking Global Warming Gridlock

Politics & Society

David Victor, an internationally recognized leader in research on energy and climate change policy, has a message to policymakers around the globe: time is running out.

Report: ‘Frictionless Border’ Would Benefit U.S., Mexico

Business & Economics

A comprehensive research report prepared by a coalition of nationally-respected urban economic experts contends that both the United States and Mexico would benefit significantly from establishing what is termed a “frictionless border.”

Report: ‘Frictionless Border’ Would Benefit U.S., Mexico

Nanoengineers Develop Basis for Electronics That Stretch at the Molecular Level

Science & Environment

Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego are asking what might be possible if semiconductor materials were flexible and stretchable without sacrificing electronic function? Today’s flexible electronics are already enabling a new generation of wearable sensors and other mobile electronic devices. But these flexible electronics, in which very thin semiconductor materials are applied to a thin, flexible substrate in wavy patterns and then applied to a deformable surface such as skin or fabric, are still built around hard composite materials that limit their elasticity.

Nanoengineers Develop Basis for Electronics That Stretch at the Molecular Level

Teen Mentored by UC San Diego Professors Wins $250,000 in Science Prizes

Science & Environment

A 17-year-old senior at Canyon Crest Academy in San Diego’s North County recently won not one, but three major science competitions after being mentored by two University of California, San Diego, professors in a project that combined supercomputer modeling with experimental research to speed up the discovery of influenza virus inhibitors.

Teen Mentored by UC San Diego Professors Wins $250,000 in Science Prizes

Detecting Fetal Chromosomal Defects Without Risk

Health & Behavior

A team of scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and in China describe a new benchtop semiconductor sequencing procedure and newly developed bioinformatics software tools that are fast, accurate, portable, less expensive and can be completed without harm to mother or fetus.