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Thanks to work done at UC San Diego, imagine being able to wear a small patch on your arm that can continually run most of the lab tests you do once a year, at best.

Small enough to overlook, mosquitoes spread diseases that disrupt lives and strain communities across the globe.

The Belmont Village community includes residents in independent living, assisted living and memory care, allowing studies to reflect the full spectrum of aging.

At UC San Diego, the Human Performance Institute (HPI) brings together researchers, clinicians, engineers and athletes to explore the science of movement.

Human milk is a complex, living substance, filled with molecules, antibodies, cells and bacteria that shape early development and long-term health.

ALERTCalifornia cameras can provide views up to 60 miles on a clear day and 120 miles on a clear night.

Researchers at UC San Diego have for the first time found a direct airborne link between contaminated rivers and the air that surrounding communities breathe.

At UC San Diego, researchers are developing tools that use AI-read biopsies to rapidly identify the best treatment options for certain cancers.

Wastewater pollution has been an ongoing problem for decades and is so severe that the nonprofit environmental group American Rivers recently named the Tijuana River America’s second-most-endangered river.

The effects of extended exposure to hydrogen sulfide — long linked to headaches, nausea, difficulty breathing and other symptoms — are not fully understood, UC San Diego researchers said.

For decades, the Tijuana River has carried millions of gallons of untreated sewage and industrial waste across the U.S.-Mexico border.

The University of California Health Milk Bank was established in 2020 to harness the collective strengths of the UC system—its leading human milk researchers and dedicated newborn health experts—to set the national standard in newborn nutrition and milk banking.

Inspired by her baby’s former experience receiving donor breast milk in the neonatal intensive care unit at UC San Diego Health, mom becomes a milk donor herself.

A first-of-its-kind scientific collective in San Diego is working to understand the relationship between breast milk and medication.

UC San Diego formally inaugurates the Human Milk Institute, the first academic institution in the U.S. devoted to a crucial element of human nutrition that science is, in many ways, only beginning to understand.

The UC Health Milk Bank has received the Top Honor 2023 Quality Leaders Award from the California Association of Public Hospital and Health Systems, and the California Health Care Safety Net Institute.

Combining current programs into a single entity, researchers, physicians and educators hope to create a global hub for understanding and accelerating knowledge and application of human milk.

The Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation launched a first-of-its-kind collaborative partnership Wednesday with the goal of transforming global human health by studying and sharing information on human performance.

Among the beneficiaries of Joe and Clara Tsai’s gift are the La Jolla-based Salk Institute for Biological Studies and UC San Diego.

The Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation makes a $220M commitment to create the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, to advance human well-being through the study of peak performance.

As a physical therapist in the first part of his career, orthopedic surgery and bioengineering professor Samuel Ward, P.T., Ph.D., always preferred the patients that presented a challenge.