Shadi Dayeh at @jacobsschool.bsky.social and #UCSD #QualcommInstitute is fusing engineering and medicine to map the brain and restore vision. His lab develops flexible neural interfaces and leads whole-eye transplantation research: tinyurl.com/5xvm6rmh #UCSD #neurotechnology #visionrestoration

Step inside the brand-new @ucsandiego.bsky.social Bioengineering Instructional Lab spaces, which are ready for students this fall! Bioengineering lab courses will benefit from a larger, sleeker space, while bioengineering design projects will come to life in a cutting-edge makerspace.

@ucsandiego.bsky.social professor Nick Gravish is part of an NSF-funded network of researchers in mechano-computation: www.meche.engineering.cmu.edu/news/2025/09... #robotics #biomimicry

A nonhormonal material could alleviate the negative impacts of menopause. The newly created hydrogel could combat genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM), which negatively impacts quality of life for millions of women. today.ucsd.edu/story/non-ho... #bioengineering #menopause #womenshealth

Henrik Christensen, director of the @ucsandiego.bsky.social Contextual Robotics Institute, talks about his research projects and the future of AI in this interview with the @Association for the Advancement of Automation: www.automate.org/videos/how-r...

The deep-sea #dragonfish is considered one of the scary, monstrous creatures of the ocean. It was also the subject of a #bioinspired research project by @ucsandiego.bsky.social #materials scientists that studied the properties of its transparent teeth! www.zmescience.com/feature-post...

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Congratulations to @ucsandiego.bsky.social #computerscience faculty Hao Su, who received a #frontiersofscience award! jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/release...

Materials scientists used high power laser shock compression on a #perovskite mineral to recreate the extreme pressures and temperatures deep inside the Earth. The findings provide new insights into the processes that drive earthquakes deep beneath Earth’s surface. today.ucsd.edu/story/extrem...

From #robotics to #AI, the Jacobs School represented at this year's San Diego Comic-Con! Check out the videos of the panels our researchers were on this year! jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/release... @ucsandiego.bsky.social ‪@sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social‬ #sdcc

Scientists show how #diamond — a material used to encase fuel for #fusion experiments — can develop tiny structural flaws that may limit fusion performance. The findings can help guide improved capsule designs & models to maximize #energy output of fusion experiments. today.ucsd.edu/story/resear...

Making lithium-metal #batteries last longer depends largely on controlling how #lithium nucleates & grows on the anode during charging & discharging. In a study published in Nature Chemistry, engineers show that both the electrolyte & substrate matter. #energy www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How can visual artists protect their work from non-consensual reuse by #genAI tools? It's complicated: today.ucsd.edu/story/how-ca... #generativeAI #AIcrawlers #AI #visualarts #visualartists @ucsandiego.bsky.social @uofchicago.bsky.social

A team led by electrical and computer engineer Pengtao Xie created an AI tool that can learn to read medical scans with far less data than existing deep learning-based methods. It could aid diagnoses even when only a small number of patient scans are available. today.ucsd.edu/story/new-ai...

New research led by UC San Diego chemical and nano engineer Nicole Steinmetz sheds light on why a certain plant virus that infects black-eyed peas shows remarkable promise as a low-cost, potent cancer immunotherapy—while other plant viruses do not. today.ucsd.edu/story/engine...

Ultrasound once meant brief snapshots inside the body. Now, wearable ultrasound tech is moving us toward continuous, hands-free monitoring to capture health changes in real time. Engineers led by Sheng Xu map out the advances in wearable ultrasound in this article: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Researchers led by @ucsandiego.bsky.social electrical engineer Noah Rubin have developed a compact, flat camera that can capture the polarization of light across a wide field of view—thus addressing a long-standing challenge in optical design. opg.optica.org/optica/fullt...

As waiting rooms fill up, doctors get increasingly burnt out, and surgeries take longer to schedule, humanoid surgical robots offer a solution. @ucsandiego.bsky.social Prof. Michael Yip argues why this human form factor and foundation model is best in Science Robotics: today.ucsd.edu/story/the-ro...

What happens when you shake a 10-story cold-formed steel-framed building on the world's only outdoor earthquake simulator? That's the question engineers from @ucsandiego.bsky.social & @jhu.edu worked to answer this past month. today.ucsd.edu/story/engine...

Why is #NIHfunding critical to early-stage clinical research? @ucsandiego.bsky.social #bioengineering professor Karen Christman explains. Biomaterials from the @christmanlab.bsky.social are in clinical trials to heal heart conditions, from heart attacks to congenital defects.

New Nature study co-led by @ucsandiego.bsky.social links air pollution to cancer-related DNA mutations in lung tissue of never-smokers. Other exposures, such as traditional Chinese herbal medicines, were also linked to lung cancer cases of never-smokers. today.ucsd.edu/story/air-po...

Scientists have found a simpler way to make engineered living materials—by adding living microbes after a polymer is formed. This method can enable researchers to use a wider variety of ingredients to make living materials, including those too toxic for cells. today.ucsd.edu/story/living...

Getting checked for gum disease at the dentist may no longer involve uncomfortable poking of your gums with a metal dental tool. Engineers led by Jesse Jokerst created a toothbrush-shaped ultrasound device that can provide a less invasive way to image teeth and gums. www.newswise.com/articles/too...

Researchers in the lab of @ucsandiego.bsky.social electrical engineer Abdoulaye Ndao have achieved a big milestone in photonics! They created tiny optical devices that are both highly sensitive and tough—a combo once thought impossible. today.ucsd.edu/story/sensit...

Cooling can use 40% of a data center's energy. A low-cost fiber membrane—originally designed for filtration—could change that. Through passive evaporation, it removes extreme heat with no extra energy input. It has the potential to cool high-power electronics. today.ucsd.edu/story/new-co...

The upcoming tests at our #earthquake simulator are featured in @boingboing.net! boingboing.net/2025/05/30/w... Heads up @ucsandiego.bsky.social!

Researchers @ucsandiego.bsky.social are getting ready to shake a 10-story building to see how well it withstands #earthquakes! They are helping decide if height limits for cold-formed steel-framed buildings should increase from 6 to 10 stories. Learn more about why: today.ucsd.edu/story/10-sto...

Research by @ucsandiego.bsky.social bioengineers uncovering a link between early-onset colorectal cancer and childhood exposure to a bacterial toxin is making headlines—and was just featured in National Geographic! www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...

This #AI tutor developed and tested by @ucsandiego.bsky.social researchers will now be deployed more broadly in San Diego County. It’s trained on course-specific materials and to never just to give answers to course assignments. today.ucsd.edu/story/san-di... @sdsuresearch.bsky.social

Congratulations to computer science faculty member @kumarde.bsky.social! His play, "House of India," debuts today at the Old Globe Theater! www.theoldglobe.org/pdp/25-seaso... @ucsandiego.bsky.social #OldGlobeTheater

#Algae are the new delivery drivers: they are tiny enough to float in inhalable particles and travel deep inside the lungs of mice to drop off drugs to fight pneumonia. Years of research @ucsandiego.bsky.social have turned this seemingly science fiction into a reality. today.ucsd.edu/story/its-ha...

Breakthroughs can start from simple curiosities, like a can of compressed air inspiring the battery tech at South 8 Technologies. Co-founder/CSO &engineering alum Cyrus Rustomji reflects on how @ucsandiego.bsky.social support boosted his battery startup in this Q&A. today.ucsd.edu/story/a-batt...

Exciting to see the work of @ucsandiego.bsky.social mechanical engineers in Science News Explores! Prof. Lisa Poulikakos & grad student Paula Kirya show how Morpho butterfly wings could one day help doctors investigate the development & severity of some cancers. www.snexplores.org/article/butt...

Congrats to the grand prize winner of our 43rd annual Jacobs School of Engineering Research Expo, Liya Bi, for his work on molecular self-assembly. The event featured 160+ grad students communicating their work to a broad audience. Congrats to all our award winners! today.ucsd.edu/story/self-a...

Félicitations to Miroslav Krstic on being named a 2025 Fellow-Ambassador of CNRS, the French National Centre for Scientific Research! He was recognized for his world-renowned work in automation and control engineering for nonlinear and adaptive systems. today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san...

Imagine replacing an entire day’s worth of pills with just one capsule, like this one. Created by @ucsandiego.bsky.social engineers, it can house multiple meds and release them at different times of day. No more missed doses or accidental overdoses! today.ucsd.edu/story/one-ti...

The causes of #AlzheimersDisease have been unclear—but @ucsandiego.bsky.social researchers may have unlocked the mystery. A new study found, with help from #AI, that the PHGDH gene has a previously unknown role: disrupting how cells in the brain turn genes on and off. today.ucsd.edu/story/ai-hel...

This injected, protein-like polymer helps tissues heal after a #heartattack: work by @ucsandiego.bsky.social @christmanlab.bsky.social & Northwestern: today.ucsd.edu/story/this-i... #bioengineering #heartfailure #engineeringinmedicine

Congratulations to #computerscience Professor Ryan Kastner, honored for exceptional undergraduate mentorship by there Computing Research Association! This is a first for @ucsandiego.bsky.social! Kastner is also a @qi-ucsd.bsky.social affiliate. today.ucsd.edu/story/comput...

Colorectal cancer is on a mysterious rise in young adults—now researchers may know why. A study led by @ucsandiego.bsky.social shows that a bacterial toxin in the gut generates DNA mutations during early childhood that could be driving early-onset colorectal cancer. today.ucsd.edu/story/childh...

This #EarthDay, our researchers are future-proofing the planet is by helping get more #renewables on the power grid. With DERConnect, a $42 million NSF-funded “grid sandbox," they are using the campus as a living laboratory toward this goal. today.ucsd.edu/story/6-ways...

Celebrate #EarthWeek 2025 at UC San Diego! 🌿🌍 📅 April 20–27 | Theme: Our Power, Our Planet Join us for tree planting, sustainable shopping, free vegan food & more: bit.ly/445zNFR #UCSanDiego #EarthDay

The entrepreneurial spark that materials science alum Sai Zhou found on campus helped him make the leap from grad student to startup founder. At CircuCare Inc., he is leading efforts to commercialize wearable ultrasound tech for continuous cardiovascular imaging. today.ucsd.edu/story/triton...

Bridge safety is important, and more so after an earthquake. Alessandro Palermo, a professor in the @ucsandiego.bsky.social Department of Structural Engineering, explains in his @abc10news.bsky.social segment after Monday's 5.2M earthquake centered in Julian, Calif. www.youtube.com/live/CjhFPtl...

Esri, a leader in intelligent location mapping, is adding camera feeds from @alertcalifornia.bsky.social to its #ArcGIS Atlas of the World for better awareness of #wildfire and other disasters: www.esri.com/about/newsro...

Congratulations to Robert Heath on receiving the James Clerk Maxwell Medal! He was recognized for his pioneering work on MIMO technologies, which have led to faster, more reliable wireless networks for mobile communications, autonomous vehicles & more. corporate-awards.ieee.org/recipient/ro...

This gripper's 2 fingers are made with measuring tape! It can not only pick up fruits and veggies, but also use a screwdriver; screw in a lightbulb; and open a jar of spices. @ucsandiego.bsky.social #robotics researchers describe their work in today's issue of Science Advances.

Congrats to the Jacobs School's newest Bouchet Scholars, Rayyan Gorashi & Sumeyye Seker! Gorashi uses biomaterial tools to discover sex differences in heart disease. Seker develops electrochemical sensors for monitoring human & plant health. today.ucsd.edu/story/leader...

Exciting to see how far UNIGRID Battery—a @ucsandiego.bsky.social spinoff founded by nano engineering alumni Darren Tan and Erik Wu—has come in bringing their sodium-ion battery innovations to the public. They recently showcased their tech at the International Battery Seminar in Orlando, Florida.

Congratulations to Daniela Valdez-Jasso on being inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)! She was recognized for her work exploring how biomechanical forces drive pulmonary arterial hypertension: today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san...