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UC San Diego Professor Honored by Sony and Nature for Bioengineering Research

February 5, 2025

UC San Diego Professor Honored by Sony and Nature for Bioengineering Research

Bioengineering Professor Kiana Aran is one of three inaugural winners of the Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature. She is recognized for her pioneering work fusing biology with electronics to enhance precision medicine—including the development of CRISPR-Chip, a CRISPR-powered electronic chip designed to detect genetic mutations in real time. The award is a collaboration between the Sony Group Corporation and Nature. Full Story


Scaling up Neuromorphic Computing for More Efficient and Effective AI Everywhere and Anytime

January 23, 2025

Scaling up Neuromorphic Computing for More Efficient and Effective AI Everywhere and Anytime

Neuromorphic computing—a field that applies principles of neuroscience to computing systems to mimic the brain’s function and structure—needs to scale up if it is to effectively compete with current computing methods. In a review published Jan. 22 in the journal Nature, 23 researchers, including two from the University of California San Diego, present a detailed roadmap of what needs to happen to reach that goal. The article offers a new and practical perspective toward approaching the cognitive capacity of the human brain with comparable form factor and power consumption.    Full Story


Why Our Biological Clock Ticks: Research Reconciles Major Theories of Aging

January 21, 2025

Why Our Biological Clock Ticks: Research Reconciles Major Theories of Aging

Researchers at UC San Diego have published results that shed new light on an old question: what causes aging at the molecular level? Their findings, published in Nature Aging, describe a never-before-seen link between the two most accepted explanations: random genetic mutations and predictable epigenetic modifications.  Full Story