March 20, 2020
Partnering with five diagnostics manufacturers, UC San Diego is significantly ramping up testing for COVID-19, projecting capacity to complete up to 1,500 tests daily within two to three weeks.
August 15, 2012
Sticky plaques of proteins called amyloids mark several different, though related degenerative brain diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Creutzfeld-Jacobs. The symptoms of these disorders overlap and methods to diagnose and monitor them are not very advanced.
February 18, 2021
…Dan Kolk (’83), senior diagnostic adviser with Tunnell Consulting Group Inc. supporting BARDA Diagnostics, who will address the future of at-home diagnostic testing in response to COVID-19. The event, produced in collaboration with UCTV, is part of A Deep Look into the Future of Biology, a series that commemorates the…
November 5, 2021
UC San Diego scientists have created a new technology that rapidly detects the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The new SENSR was developed using CRISPR gene-editing technology as a rapid diagnostic that eventually could be used in homes, airports and other locations.
July 2, 2019
Bladder cancer, one of the most common cancers in the U.S., may be soon helped by a novel non-invasive diagnostic method thanks to machine learning research by researchers at UC San Diego’s San Diego Supercomputer Center and Moores Cancer Center.
May 1, 2017
…discuss her unique entrepreneurial background and success in molecular diagnostics.
June 12, 2018
Renkun Chen, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California San Diego, has received a $1.18 million dollar award from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office to develop technology that can advance next-generation concentrating solar power (CSP) systems. The project is aimed at…
July 21, 2022
…challenges and emerging medical diagnostics approaches, and I can’t wait to see their basic research translated into new practices and procedures that improve patient care.” Poulikakos and Morimoto both focus on engineering in medicine. Poulikakos develops imaging methods to visualize the fibrous properties of tissue with nanoscale optics. Morimoto builds…
January 9, 2012
A team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Zacharon Pharmaceuticals, have developed a simple, reliable test for identifying biomarkers for mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS), a group of inherited metabolic disorders that are currently diagnosed in patients only after symptoms have become serious…
February 8, 2018
…Project Goes Viral Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Project expands its online testing platform to help promote math readiness and performance in students nationwide The University of California San Diego, which hosts the Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Project (MDTP) within the Division of Physical Sciences, is blazing a digital trail for success in…
