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A new (and surprising) way to use solar panels

In the middle of California's Central Valley, a new way to use solar panels could change how we think about clean energy and water. It’s a simple idea that people have talked about for decades, but only now is it finally being tested in real life.

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UC San Diego |

ARPA-H project aims to end liver transplant shortage with 3D bioprinting

Researchers are developing functional, patient-specific livers using 3D bioprinting and stem cell technology to eliminate the need for donor organs.
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UC Berkeley |

Rewriting the code: The inside story of the first CRISPR cure

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC Berkeley.
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UC San Diego |

Electric cars won’t fix sitting: The health costs of designing cities around cars

Walkability pioneer, UC San Diego urban planning professor Lawrence Frank revisits two decades of evidence linking car dependence and chronic disease — and explains why cleaner cars won’t make us healthier.
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UC San Francisco |

A new way to diagnose deadly lung infections and save lives

Researchers at UC San Francisco have devised a method to identify pneumonia — using both genetic information and AI — that could curb the overuse of antibiotics.

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