UC San Diego School of Medicine Recognized Among 2024 Best Medical Schools
San Diego’s only medical school earns the highest tier rating among research-intensive medical schools in the nation.
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AI Tool Spots Breastfeeding Complications from Phone Photos for Streamlined Lactation Care
In a step toward using artificial intelligence to provide faster and more accurate lactation care to breastfeeding mothers, engineers at UC San Diego developed a tool to identify breastfeeding-related conditions from simple phone images.
Researchers Identify Brain Circuits Tied to the Behavior of Schooling Fish
UC San Diego researchers have uncovered the roots of group behavior in the brains of schooling fish. Glassfish, they found, depend on their sense of vision to coordinate social swimming behavior in schools and increase their ability to follow coordinated group movements as they mature.
UC San Diego Health No. 1 in San Diego, Top 20 in the Nation
Region’s only academic health system ranks No. 1 in San Diego and California with 11 medical and surgical specialties rated among nation’s best.
How Much Risk are Humans Willing to Take When Interacting With Robots?
How do people like to interact with robots when navigating a crowded environment? And what algorithms should roboticists use to program robots to interact with humans? These are the questions that a team of mechanical engineers and computer scientists at the University of California San Diego sought to answer in a study presented recently at the ICRA 2024 conference in Japan.
Irene Su Receives Award for a Novel Study on Fertility Preservation for Young Cancer Patients
The grant from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society will fund research on the affordability and utilization of fertility preservation with health insurance for adolescent young adults with blood cancers.
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