May 24, 2017
Researchers have developed a new device to map the brain during surgery and distinguish between healthy and diseased tissues. The device provides higher resolution neural readings than existing tools used in the clinic and could enable doctors to perform safer, more precise brain surgeries.
June 11, 2015
…wants to become a neuroscientist and is now well on his way to realizing his dreams. He and 15 of his classmates were part of the first-ever class of IDEA Scholars, a program designed to increase retention and graduation rate for students underrepresented in the field of engineering, including low-…
November 1, 2011
How do humans learn, and how is the element of time critical for learning? The Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC), headquartered at UC San Diego in the Institute for Neural Computation, is helping to answer that question, thanks in part to an $18 million renewal grant from the National…
November 8, 2018
…core to the larger neuroscience community,” said Kleinfeld. Anatomically defined regions in the brainstem that control orofacial motor actions, superimposed on stained brain tissue. Analysis by Yuncong Chen and Lauren McElvain in the Yoav Freund and David Kleinfeld Laboratories. Courtesy of UC San Diego The digital atlas will utilize machine…
May 11, 2017
By applying a novel computer algorithm to mimic how the brain learns, a team of researchers – with the aid of the Comet supercomputer based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego – has identified and replicated neural circuitry that resembles the way an unimpaired brain…
February 2, 2023
From pandemics to health inequities, confronting future crises will look different — and that’s a good thing.
May 9, 2012
The University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Bioengineering Professor Todd Coleman, in collaboration with Materials Science and Engineering Professor John A. Rogers at the University of Illinois…
December 1, 2020
Researchers from UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara combine physics and biology to find that the physical environment where cells migrate through tight spaces is worth considering when studying conditions like development of the brain or movement of immune cells through lymph nodes and tumors.
June 17, 2024
Researchers at UC San Diego found an unusually large brain may be the first sign of autism and visible as early as the first trimester.
April 20, 2023
Sean Huang was named campus champion of UC San Diego’s 2023 Grad SLAM competitive public speaking event and will advance to the UC-wide final round on May 5.
