Research Growth Tops $1.76B With Tremendous Portfolio of Discovery and Invention
University of California San Diego earned $1.76 billion in research funding last fiscal year, a 6 percent increase over the previous year.
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One Step Closer to Lithium Metal Batteries that Function with Minimal External Pressure
A team of battery researchers led by the University of California San Diego and University of Chicago has developed a new methodology to produce the potentially game-changing thin film solid-state electrolyte called lithium phosphorus oxynitride (LiPON).
New Insights on Pelvic Floor Damage after Vaginal Birth, and New Directions for Treatment
New insights from UC San Diego researchers on pelvic floor muscle (PFM) dysfunction, which is one of the key risk factors for pelvic floor disorders that impact close to a quarter of women in the U.S. and have a strong association with vaginal childbirth.
A Scalable Approach to Building and Updating Phylogenies
A team of researchers led by Metin Balaban and Siavash Mirarab at UC San Diego have developed a more scalable method to infer phylogenetic trees. Their work appears in Nature Biotechnology.
This 3D Printed Gripper Doesn’t Need Electronics To Function
This soft robotic gripper is not only 3D printed in one print, it also doesn’t need any electronics to work. The device was developed by a team of roboticists at UC San Diego, in collaboration with researchers at the BASF corporation.
New Resource Harmonizes 16S and Shotgun Sequencing Data for Microbiome Research
UC San Diego scientists debut Greengenes2, a massive reference database that could be used to reconcile years of microbiome studies.
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