July 14, 2017
…from the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative to lead a new project aimed at advancing research in solar photovoltaic technologies. The project will focus on developing a high resolution tool that can detect moisture in photovoltaic modules and predict how it will affect the modules’ performance.
May 22, 2012
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, has renewed funding for the Superfund Research Program (SRP) at the University of California, San Diego. Over the next five years, the $15 million grant will fund continued research on the molecular and genetic consequences…
October 9, 2019
Study finds when verbal memory test cut-offs were tailored to patient sex, more female patients and fewer male patients were considered to have amnesic mild cognitive impairment. This could change the way aMCI diagnoses are determined and make it easier to catch the condition in its early stages.
April 17, 2014
…made the discovery, also leads another project that could make those necessary observations, and more. “POLARBEAR is poised to confirm the findings of the BICEP2 telescope, but will also measure masses of cosmic neutrinos, the ‘ghostly messengers’ of the Big Bang,” says Keating, who leads this multi-institutional collaboration along with…
February 25, 2021
…housing. This in turn leads to timely case investigation and contact tracing by campus public health teams. Staying a step ahead of potential outbreaks The campus has 109 wastewater samplers, more than any other university in the nation. Since the start of the pandemic, there have been no outbreaks on…
August 10, 2023
Creating new technologically advanced sensors, scientists from UC San Diego and Australia have engineered bacteria that detect the presence of tumor DNA in live organisms. Their innovation could pave the way to new biosensors capable of identifying various infections, cancers and other diseases.
February 11, 2021
…program to try to detect the presence of asymptomatic COVID-19 infected individuals on school campuses before outbreaks occur. Safer at School Early Alert pilot program uses wastewater and surface monitoring to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in TK-8 schools and child care centers In an effort to help schools reduce…
June 20, 2017
…after only one month of operation with a new detector.
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.
December 14, 2020
Temperature data collected by wearable devices worn on the finger can be reliably used to detect the onset of fevers, a leading symptom of both COVID-19 and the flu, according to a team of researchers from the University of California San Diego, UC San Francisco and MIT Lincoln Lab.
