UC San Diego researchers at the Qualcomm Institute will use a $2 million NIH award to purchase a new, non-invasive machine to study the magnetic fields of the human brain. The research has applications in epilepsy, concussions and more.
Researchers from 16 top engineering programs in the nation, including bioengineers at UC San Diego, have established a roadmap for hiring diverse faculty members into biomedical engineering departments.
Creating new technologically advanced sensors, scientists from UC San Diego and Australia have engineered bacteria that detect the presence of tumor DNA in live organisms. Their innovation could pave the way to new biosensors capable of identifying various infections, cancers and other diseases.
Promising preclinical results from UC San Diego show hematopoietic stem cell therapy was effective in rescuing memory loss, neuroinflammation and beta amyloid build-up in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease.
University of California San Diego earned $1.76 billion in research funding last fiscal year, a 6 percent increase over the previous year.
The start of wine grape growing season in California’s Napa Valley now comes nearly a month earlier than it used to because of the region’s warming climate, according to a new study from a team led by UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography researcher Dan Cayan.
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