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Mission Critical: How Humans and Robots Can Team up in Uncertain Environments
May 20, 2022
In the midst of a medical emergency or disaster response, how can humans and robots work together mo...
Using everyday WiFi to help robots see and navigate better indoors
May 20, 2022
UC San Diego engineers have developed a low cost, low power technology to help robots accurately map...
Multi-tasking wearable continuously monitors glucose, alcohol, and lactate
May 9, 2022
Imagine being able to measure your blood sugar levels, know if you’ve had too much to drink, a...
Breaking through to the brain
May 5, 2022
UC San Diego bioengineering Professor Ester Kwon, who leads the Nanoscale Bioengineering r...
Unveiling the genes linked to the synthesis of many complex Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMOs)
May 5, 2022
In a study in Nature Communications published on May 4, 2022 entitled "Elucidating Human Milk O...
Arrhythmia mapping technology demonstrates positive clinical results
May 4, 2022
Bioengineers and cardiologists from UC San Diego invented a technology that can accurately and nonin...
Study of promising Alzheimer's marker in blood prompts warning about brain-boosting supplements
May 3, 2022
Elevated levels of an enzyme called PHGDH in the blood of older adults could be an early warning sig...
Researchers transform an amorphous solid into a new lithium-ion battery material
May 2, 2022
Researchers at UC San Diego and Boise State University have developed a new approach to making novel...
'Eye-catching' smartphone app could make it easy to screen for neurological disease at home
April 29, 2022
UC San Diego researchers developed a smartphone app that could allow people to screen for Alzheimer&...
Researchers shed light on why a certain plant virus is so powerful at fighting cancer
April 27, 2022
The cowpea mosaic virus has shown great promise as an experimental cancer immunotherapy for treating...
Opioid treatment tracking startup celebrates string of successes
April 27, 2022
CARI Health, a startup in the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur's MedTech Accelerator, was n...
Startup cofounded by UC San Diego bioengineer wins angel investment competition
April 20, 2022
Karios Technologies, a company cofounded by UC San Diego bioengineering professor Karen Christman, w...