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First in Nation: UC San Diego Health Offers Treatment for Hereditary Amyloidosis

New medication now available at UC San Diego Health allows for less frequent visits for patients, helping improve quality of life.

Surprise, Surprise: Subsurface Water on Mars Defies Expectations

A new analysis of seismic data from NASA’s Mars InSight mission has revealed a couple of surprises. The first surprise: the top 300 meters of the subsurface beneath the landing site near the Martian equator contains little or no ice.

CRISPR-based Technology Targets Global Crop Pest

Applying CRISPR-based technology to a broad agricultural need, scientists have developed a new technology aimed at Drosophila suzukii, the invasive fruit fly responsible for millions of dollars in crop damage. The technology replaces the need for insecticides with precise genetic edits in flies.

The invasive Drosophila suzukii fruit fly on a berry.

A New Neuromorphic Chip for AI on the Edge, at a Small Fraction of the Energy and Size

An international team of researchers has designed and built a chip that runs computations directly in memory and can run a wide variety of AI applications–all at a fraction of the energy consumed by computing platforms for general-purpose AI computing.

UC San Diego Receives $1.3M from W. M. Keck Foundation to Study Origins of Dementia

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have received a $1.3 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation for a project that could help scientists better understand the role misfolded tau proteins play in causing neurodegenerative diseases like dementia, which may lead to more effective

Problem-Solving like an Expert

Learning to become better problem solvers is how several San Diego high school students, as well as high school teachers, spent part of the summer here at the University of California San Diego. The engineering problem-solving course they participated in is part of a larger UC San Diego project to