June 8, 2023
With mentorship from UC San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute and Jacobs School of Engineering, postdoctoral fellow Ivonne Gonzalez-Gamboa has won the national Nanotechnology Entrepreneurship Challenge, making this the second consecutive year that a UC San Diego entry secured first place.
September 7, 2021
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed COVID-19 vaccine candidates that can take the heat. Their key ingredients? Viruses from plants or bacteria.
September 14, 2021
Using a virus that grows in black-eyed pea plants, researchers developed a new therapy that could keep metastatic cancers from spreading to the lungs, as well as treat established tumors in the lungs.
November 23, 2020
Researchers have identified the first key biological switch that sounds an alarm in plants when plant-eating animals attack. The mechanism will help unlock a trove of new strategies for improved plant health, from countering crop pest damage to engineering more robust global food webs.
October 8, 2020
…material science,” Pascal added. Plant viruses become living materials Nicole Steinmetz, a professor of nanoengineering, works with plant viruses to create new materials. Meanwhile, research in living materials is using the tools of the biotechnology revolution, such as genetic engineering and synthetic biology, to build new classes of materials with…
November 30, 2020
Nanoengineers at UC San Diego have developed new and improved probes, known as positive controls, that could make it easier to validate rapid, point-of-care diagnostic tests for COVID-19 across the globe. The advance could help expand testing to low-resource, underserved areas.
October 26, 2017
…to study self-incompatibility in plants, a common mechanism in flowering plants that prevents inbreeding. He received enough money to fund the work of a post-doc in his lab, and the research they conducted helped Kohn receive a grant from the National Science Foundation. This, in turn, helped him publish several…
November 9, 2023
Rather than a slow, gradual process as Darwin envisioned, biologists can now see how evolutionary changes unfold on accelerated timescales. Using an arms race between bacteria and viruses, researchers are documenting complex evolutionary processes in simple laboratory flasks in only three weeks.
June 21, 2022
A new combination therapy to combat cancer could one day consist of a plant virus and an antibody that activates the immune system’s “natural killer” cells, shows a study by UC San Diego researchers. In mouse models of colon cancer, the therapy eliminated all tumors and prevented their recurrence.
October 23, 2014
…infectious, deadly and terrifying virus. UC Health System Forms Ebola Response Task Force The West Africa Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia and the infection of U.S. health care workers has captured media attention and created concern in hospitals and communities across the nation. In response, UC San…
