Global TIES: Humanitarian Engineering Students Go Global with Solar Suitcase
Global TIES: Humanitarian Engineering Students Go Global with Solar Suitcase
UC San Diego Teams with Other Universities and Audi to Help Urban Drivers
Bioengineers ‘Pump’ Life Into Post-Heart Attack Therapies
San Diego, CA, January 18, 2011 — Bioengineers at UC San Diego are one step closer to improving therapies for heart attack victims. A paper recently published in Biomaterials called “Hydrogels with time-dependent material properties enhance cardiomyocyte differentiation in vitro,” describes how the researchers measured the increase in stiffness that occurs in heart muscle as it develops and then mimicked that change in a modified version of a biological material called hyaluronic acid. Pre-cardiac cells grown on these materials were found to mature into adult heart cells better than when grown on materials that did not stiffen. This process occurred despite not having the proper chemical signals around them and shows how important stiffness can be to cells.
Eight UC San Diego Professors Named New AAAS Fellows
San Diego, CA, January 13, 2011 — Two Jacobs School of Engineering professors are among the eight University of California, San Diego professors named new Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.
UC San Diego Engineers Lead National Effort to Save Lives and Buildings During Earthquakes
The Deep Freeze: Engineering Students Study Beetles and Climate Change Via Weather Balloon
Engineering for the Earth
San Diego, CA, December 14, 2010 — While she was still in high school, Nitya Timalsina began working on developing cheap yet powerful water filtration systems in Third World countries like Nepal, her birthplace.
Metabolism Models may Explain Why Alzheimer’s Disease Kills Some Neuron Types First
Two UC San Diego Computer Scientists Recognized for Contributions in Computer Systems Security, Bioinformatics
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