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Technology

SMART: A software to unlock cell signaling’s secrets

Pranjal Malewar

Spatial Modeling Algorithms for Reactions and Transport.

Revealing New Insights into Aluminum Ablation
Technology

New method reveals how lasers ablate Aluminum

Jay Kakade

A team of researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, UCSD, and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have made advancements in a longstanding issue of laser-induced...

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Technology

New powerful technology reverses insecticide resistance in pests

Jay Kakade

Since insecticides are the most prevalent way of controlling crop damage from pests, their overuse has rendered pests insecticide-resistant. When beetles, moths, or other...

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Technology

New optical biosensor technology rapidly detect monkeypox

Jay Kakade

With the urgent need for faster and more effective diagnostic tools to detect Monkeypox, researchers have pioneered an innovative detection system. The team at...

Abstract virus cells and DNA strands
Science

How did the first cell membranes come to exist?

Pranjal Malewar

On the origin of life.

mountaintop collapsed into the sea and triggered a mega-tsunami
Environment

A mountaintop collapsed into the sea and triggered a mega-tsunami

Pranjal Malewar

Greenland landslide caused nine-day earthquake.

Researchers use a new technique called SMIRC to collect microbial natural products.
Earth

Researchers develop new technique to explore oceanic microbes

Ashwini Sakharkar

It could be the first step in uncovering compounds that lead to next-generation antibiotics.

This finger wrap is powered by the wearer's fingertip sweat—and also monitors levels of glucose, lactate, vitamin C and levodopa in that same sweat.
Technology

Electronic finger wrap provides health monitoring at your fingertips

Ashwini Sakharkar

This finger wrap is powered by the wearer's fingertip sweat.

Mars InSight as seen in "selfie" taken by lander
Space

Geophysicists find stores of liquid water on Mars

Amit Malewar

Presence of liquid water most probable explanation for data collected by Mars lander.

UC San Diego PhD candidate Grayson Deysher is first author of the paper outlining the team’s work.
Technology

Researchers create world’s first anode-free sodium solid-state battery

Ashwini Sakharkar

A breakthrough in inexpensive, clean, fast-charging batteries.

Image showing Colored SEM image of a microrobot made of an algae cell (green) covered with macrophage-mimicking nanoparticles (red). Scale bar: 5 µm.
Health

Microrobot-filled pill offers hope for treating IBD in mice

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Biohybrid microrobots help control colonic cytokines and strengthen the epithelium barrier in inflammatory bowel disease.

Woman sleeping on bed at home
Health

Understanding health through changes in sleep pattern

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Analysis of sleep phenotypes over a five million night period.

Coffee in a cup on an old surface
Health

Is coffee good or bad for health?

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Genome-wide studies of coffee intake in UK/US Europeans.

Image showing Colored SEM image of a microrobot made of an algae cell (green) covered with drug-filled nanoparticles (orange) coated with red blood cell membranes. Scale bar: 2 µm.
Health

Microrobots deliver cancer drugs to lung tumors in mice

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Biohybrid microrobots target lung tumors with drug-filled nanoparticles.

Alysson Muotri, director of the Sanford Stem Cell Institute (SSCI) Integrated Space Stem Cell Orbital Research Center at UC San Diego.
Technology

First-in-kind protocol for creating miniature artificial brains

Ashwini Sakharkar

Researchers worldwide can now create highly realistic brain cortical organoids.

Hands holding puzzle ribbon for autism awareness
Health

Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins

Pranjal Malewar

Findings suggest new possibilities for early autism detection.

Birds flying from the tree during sun rise
Biology

Scientists built the most extensive and most detailed bird family tree to date

Pranjal Malewar

Computational tools fuel reconstruction of new and improved bird family tree.

Pipette on multi well plate over dna research data
Health

Genetic tool tracks CRISPR editing risks

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Deciphering DNA repair progression with mutation classifier.

The mechanisms behind fear revealed
Neuroscience

Neurobiologists uncover how stress turns into fear in the brain

Pranjal Malewar

How fear unfolds inside our brains?

This new cathode material for lithium-sulfur materials is structurally healable and highly conductive.
Technology

Healable cathode makes solid-state Li-S batteries a practical reality

Ashwini Sakharkar

Healable cathode could unlock the potential of solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries.

The anterior cardiac veins are a group of parallel coronary veins
Health

Injectable hydrogel protects right ventricle of heart

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Hydrogels mitigate negative remodeling in right heart failure.

A lonely grayhaired man sits on the couch
Health

Type 2 diabetes affects vertebral disc behavior

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Type 2 diabetes alters annulus fibrosus fiber deformation in UCD-T2DM rats.

Two gorillas playing
Science

Great apes playfully tease each other: study

Pranjal Malewar

Do apes have humor?

This image, taken on Aug. 5, 2023, shows a blend of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the intensely hot material in flares and which is colorized in red and orange. (cr: NASA/GSFC/SDO)
Space

New research uncovers significant number of slow-building solar flares

Amit Malewar

New research by a team led by UC San Diego astrophysics graduate student Aravind Bharathi Valluvan has discovered a significant number of slow-building solar...

mitochondria
Biology

How does obesity dismantle our mitochondria?

Pranjal Malewar

UC San Diego Study reveals key mechanism behind obesity-related metabolic dysfunction.

Aging concept
Health

New research points to microbiome’s role in skin aging

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Multi-study analysis reveals microbial clues to skin aging signs.

artistic rendering shows ice plumes
Space

Saturn’s icy moon may hold the building blocks of life

Amit Malewar

Enceladus’ ice plumes may hold the building blocks of life.

twin chick embryos
Biology

A mathematical model connects the evolution of chickens, fish, and frogs

Pranjal Malewar

How does it happen?

The doctor looks at the hologram of the intestine
Health

A new way found to identify a sign of inflammatory bowel disease

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Unlocking human chemical structures via reverse metabolomics.

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Health

Study finds subtle brain alterations associated with hearing loss

Dr. Prajakta Banik

The link between hearing thresholds and brain changes revealed.

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