May 29, 2023
UC San Diego engineers have developed a super low-cost 3D-printed attachment that clips over a smartphone’s camera and flash to measure blood pressure at the user’s fingertip. Researchers say it could help make regular blood pressure monitoring easy, affordable and accessible.
January 29, 2015
Researchers at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego, shed new light on how whales are able to hear, and more specifically on the role of the skulls of at least some baleen whales—fin whales to be precise.
November 20, 2012
…Affairs Suresh Subramani added, “Tonight is about what our faculty do and how they inspire us.” In the intimate setting of the new J.R. Beyster Auditorium in the Rady School of Management’s Fargo Hall, the 10-minute discussions shared relevant research and topical issues, showcasing work that has real impacts on…
December 10, 2020
…cancer developed in his tonsils and has since spread to his lungs. “The latest immunotherapies, both the FDA-approved and the experimental, were proving ineffective. Obviously, it was time to go in a different direction.” Bernard Thurman has undergone a variety of cancer therapies; none has successfully eradicated the disease. He…
October 3, 2019
…from blood vessels, to skin, cartilage, lung tissue—and more. “He was the first person who wanted to bring medicine and engineering together—and he succeeded,” said Peter Chen, one of Fung’s Ph.D. students who is now a research scientist here at UC San Diego. Fung formulated the exponential law that describes…
March 19, 2015
…levels right from the skin. The hallmark of the UC San Diego & You series is deliberate absence of a standard Q&A session. The brief talks are instead followed by a hosted reception where guests can engage in conversation with the presenters and experience their ambition and expertise firsthand. “I…
April 25, 2013
…of fantastic and alien tongues discuss art of constructing languages at ‘Linguistics Goes to Hollywood’ Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Nobody wore a ridged rubber forehead, or painted their skin Pandora blue. If there were craggy beards and long locks, these seemed more homage to 1960s counterculture than…
February 22, 2018
…a mosquito pierces human skin and extracts blood, and with it the potential of transmitting pathogens. And he explains all of this while a hungry mosquito is feeding off of his blood. For the love of mosquitos Omar Akbari’s story doesn’t trace the typical narrative of an emerging biologist. No…
