April 27, 2017
A team of scientists from UC San Diego and two other universities has received a five year, $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to unravel the fundamental properties of melanins, a family of natural pigments found in skin, hair, eyes and even the plumage of brightly colored…
May 14, 2015
…computer engineering Darren Lipomi, nanoengineering Rayan Saab, mathematics Chih-Ying Su, neurobiology Jennifer Taylor, marine biology research division Roy Wollman, chemistry and biochemistry Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences: Marc Garellek, linguistics Jillian Hernandez, ethnic studies Ruixue Jia, School of Global Policy and Strategy Dana Murillo, history Vanesa Ribas, sociology Established…
January 16, 2019
You may have seen a kid play with a feather, or you may have played with one yourself: Running a hand along a feather’s barbs and watching as the feather unzips and zips, seeming to miraculously pull itself back together. That “magical” zipping mechanism could provide a model for new…
May 17, 2018
…in the Department of Nanoengineering at UC San Diego. “We envision that in the future, physicians might perform this type of test using a quick finger stick to diagnose patients who may not know they have the disease yet.” Blood tests for early cancer detection, known as liquid biopsies, are…
June 17, 2014
Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a nanoshell to protect foreign enzymes used to starve cancer cells as part of chemotherapy. Their work is featured on the June 2014 cover of the journal Nano Letters.
June 8, 2021
A new 3D bioprinter developed by UC San Diego nanoengineers operates at record speed—it can print a 96-well array of living human tissue samples within 30 minutes. The technology could help accelerate high-throughput preclinical drug screening and make it less costly.
September 22, 2015
…help clean up carbon dioxide pollution in the oceans. Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego have designed enzyme-functionalized micromotors that rapidly zoom around in water, remove carbon dioxide and convert it into a usable solid form.
October 8, 2020
UC San Diego’s Center for Energy Research has been awarded two grants from the Department of Energy for research focused on developing environment-friendly and cost-competitive energy sources and systems.
July 22, 2021
UC San Diego engineers developed a soft, stretchy ultrasound patch that can be worn on the skin to monitor blood flow through vessels deep inside the body. Such a device can make it easier to detect cardiovascular problems, like blockages in the arteries that could lead to strokes or heart…
November 19, 2013
Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have used the genomic sequences of 55 E. coli strains to reconstruct the metabolic repertoire for each strain. Surprisingly, these reconstructions do an excellent job of predicting the kind of environment where each strain will thrive, the researchers found.
