July 22, 2020
With a bottom-up approach to synthetic biology, UC San Diego Chemist Neal Devaraj, Physicist Sunil Sinha and a team of researchers showed that lipid sponge droplets can be programmed to function like cellular organelles.
May 20, 2016
All scientific achievement begins with an idea. Yesterday, three researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine were awarded funding by the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to pursue budding ideas that might eventually impact the field of human stem cell…
August 5, 2020
Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine report successfully implanting specialized grafts of neural stem cells directly into spinal cord injuries in mice, then documenting how the grafts grew and filled the injury sites, mimicking the animals’ existing neuronal network.
July 9, 2015
Engineers at Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, have created the first robot with a 3D-printed body that transitions from a rigid core to a soft exterior. The robot is capable of more than 30 untethered jumps and is powered by a mix of butane and oxygen.…
May 1, 2023
Ross Greer, an electrical and computer engineering graduate student at UC San Diego, won the grand prize at Research Expo 2023 for his work on a technology that could enable vehicles to drive more autonomously and decide when the driver is prepared to take back control of the wheel.
August 9, 2024
The Nanotechnology Summer Institute at the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute guides middle and high school teachers through integrating nanotechnology into their science curricula.
February 15, 2023
“The pandemic highlighted an underserved area—rapid detection of various different pathogens such as COVID, the flu, and other viruses,” says Shane Bowen ‘00, ‘05, a co-founder of Palamedrix.
July 28, 2022
…artificial cells—cells that can self-assemble, grow and reproduce not just once, but cyclically as occurs in nature. His lab has leveraged its work on artificial cells to create new tools for manipulating lipids. Their most recent work was published in Nature Chemistry earlier this month. His work for the DOD…
March 19, 2015
…and simulations tools for self-assembly—where components spontaneously organize themselves—to construct large-scale architectures using solid-state nanocrystal building blocks.” Applications for her research include photovoltaics, chemical sensing and optical coatings. Bradley Voytek, Department of Cognitive Science Voytek’s research program combines large scale data-mining and machine-learning techniques with experimental research to understand the…
February 16, 2017
…and cause it to self-assemble into two- and three-dimensional nanostructures. Knowing that DNA is negatively charged, the students hypothesize that it will bind tightly to a positively charged nanoparticle incorporating the cancer drug. From left to right: Alejandro Alva, Johnny Koo, Quyen Hoang, Zandra Rojo, Raina Borum, Hamid Razavi Students…
