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In the ongoing search for a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, a burgeoning branch of medicine is bringing new hope. Stem cell therapies are already being used to treat various cancers and disorders of the blood and immune system. In a new…

Pushing into a new chapter of technologically advanced biological sensors, scientists from the University of California San Diego and their colleagues in Australia have engineered bacteria that can detect the presence of tumor DNA in a…

Researchers from 16 top engineering programs in the nation, including bioengineers at the University of California San Diego, have established a roadmap for hiring diverse faculty members into biomedical engineering departments. The team…

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $2 million to a UC San Diego research center at the Qualcomm Institute (QI) for the purchase of a new, non-invasive magnetoencephalography (MEG) system to study the magnetic fields of…

One of the most popular strategies to increase energy efficiency and reduce pollution in homes — which are responsible for approximately 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions — is the transitioning from gas to electric stoves. An…

The 2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has recognized the University of California San Diego as No. 4 among public universities in the United States, rising one spot from last year. UC San Diego also jumped two spots to…

In a paper published this week in the journal Nature Methods, authors Pavel Pevzner, the Ronald R. Taylor Chair and a distinguished professor in the University of California San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and…

UC San Diego Health has been recognized by the American Heart Association (AHA) for providing the highest quality of care to patients using research-based guidelines in the treatment of heart disease and stroke.The awards are part of the…

From a pristinely packaged device on a box-store shelf to a beat-up and abandoned phone stripped of its SIM card, a smartphone’s journey from indispensable to deactivated is remarkably brief.In a paper presented at the 2023 Architectural…

One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease is disruption to the body’s circadian rhythm, the internal biological clock that regulates many of our physiological processes. Nearly 80% of people with Alzheimer’s experience these issues,…