UC San Diego Breaks Record with $1.35B in Research Funding

In fiscal year 2019 (July 1-June 30), UC San Diego earned $1.35 billion in sponsored research funding, a 10% increase over the previous year. This is the largest number ever for the university and marks the 10th consecutive year the campus has...
17-Oct-2019 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Clingfish biology inspires better suction cup

A team of engineers and marine biologists built a better suction cup inspired by the mechanism that allows the clingfish to adhere to both smooth and rough surfaces, such as rocks in the area where the tide comes and goes.
16-Oct-2019 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Findings Bridge Knowledge Gap between Pheromone Sensitivity and Courtship

Scientists have found a key link between fertility and the response strength of pheromone-sensing neurons. They found that a channel known as PPK25 amplifies courtship signals in olfactory receptor neurons of male flies. PPK25 heightens males’...
14-Oct-2019 8:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

UC San Diego Researchers Connect Premature Births to Possible Causes in Central California

A research team led by UC San Diego has created an interactive map of preterm births — births before 37 weeks of gestation — and potential environmental and social drivers across Fresno County in Central California.
15-Oct-2019 4:55 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Drug-light combo could offer control over CAR T-cell therapy

UC San Diego bioengineers are a step closer to making CAR T-cell therapy safer, more precise and easy to control. They developed a system that allows them to select where and when CAR T cells get turned on so that they destroy cancer cells without...
14-Oct-2019 7:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

SDSC Launches Open-Source ‘SeedMeLab’

Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego have launched an open-source software called SeedMeLab, which provides a host of features for researchers across all disciplines to manage and disseminate their data products from a...
14-Oct-2019 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

These New Soft Actuators Could Make Soft Robots Less Bulky

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a way to build soft robots that are compact, portable and multifunctional. The advance was made possible by creating soft, tubular actuators whose movements are electrically...
8-Oct-2019 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Study Identifies Religious Bias Against Refugees

When you hold constant national origin, religion is the most powerful source of discrimination against refugees to the United States – mattering more than gender, age, fluency in English or professional skill. Also: Though anti-Muslim bias...
9-Oct-2019 12:40 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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