April 29, 2021
Augmented reality headsets give UC San Diego Health spine surgeons “x-ray vision” during procedures for accurate and personalized implant placement, while keeping their eyes on their patients.
January 21, 2021
…Smarter and Safer Against COVID-19 A new tool for monitoring COVID-19 may one day be right under your nose. Researchers at the University of California San Diego are developing a color-changing test strip that can be stuck on a mask and used to detect SARS-CoV-2 in a user’s breath or…
January 12, 2021
Researchers at UC San Diego, UCLA, UC Irvine and San Diego State University have been awarded a $1.2 million UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI) grant to develop an advanced class of mobile telemanipulation robots.
May 13, 2021
…la vacunación contra el COVID-19 en comunidades desatendidas. Un universitario primera generación e hijo de inmigrantes mexicanos, el Profesor Asistente Fabián Rivera-Chávez nació y fue criado en el norte de California. Se unió al profesorado facultad de UC San Diego en la Escuela de Medicina y en la División de…
November 12, 2020
The Unequal Spread of COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic has flooded communities that are already at a disadvantage, disproportionately affecting underserved populations. In local neighborhoods such as Chula Vista, Southeast San Diego and El Centro—where some of the highest local infection rates have been reported—there are crowded residential complexes where physical…
November 5, 2020
…Implications of Cost for COVID-19 Antibody Testing Testing for COVID-19 antibodies can provide important information for communities battling an outbreak. These tests can inform epidemiologists whether someone has had an infection, even if they were asymptomatic. Yet for testing to provide a good understanding, take-up needs to be broad and…
February 9, 2021
UC San Diego researchers find that an optical tool already embedded in many smartphones can accurately diagnose blood-oxygen levels and help monitor respiratory disease in patients, particularly when they are quarantined at home.
April 15, 2021
There is consistent, strong evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, is predominantly transmitted through the air, according to a new assessment published April 15 in the medical journal Lancet.
December 13, 2022
An international team of scientists led by UC San Diego computer science and engineering professor Pengtao Xie has developed a new algorithm that shows promise in improving the detection of pneumonia from chest x-rays.
June 14, 2022
Kimberly Prather has been elected to the American Philosophical Society. She is Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry and Distinguished Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UC San Diego.
