As San Diego Comic-Con kicks off, neuroscientist Bradley Voytek explores how monsters give shape to our deepest fears — and reflect the anxieties of their time.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientists recently led a paper that documents how juvenile great white sharks responded to Tropical Storm Hilary in August 2023. When the storm hit, many sharks abandoned their San Diego nursery site for calmer waters, returning shortly after the storm passed.
UC San Diego has welcomed eight new alumni to its Alumni Board of Directors. The incoming members bring a wide range of experience, spanning Hollywood production and business to public policy and medicine.
Researchers developed a patch that continuously tracks a patient’s Parkinson's disease medication levels through their fingertip sweat. The device operates using chemicals in this sweat — no batteries required. Its measurements were comparable to those obtained by standard laboratory blood tests.
Uri Manor, inaugural faculty director of the Goeddel Family Technology Sandbox, is using advanced instruments to study Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a debilitating genetic neurological disorder. Such advancements are offering hope for six-year-old Jeremy and others who suffer from the disease.
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Partnerships between the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at University of California San Diego and local Native communities have helped create new pathways for cultural expression, public health education and community leadership.
The Curebound Cancer Challenge will return to UC San Diego on Aug. 1, raising critical funds for cancer research in San Diego.
UC San Diego’s Black Staff Association brought the campus together for its 6th Annual Juneteenth Celebration and I Am Black Excellence Awards Celebration in the Great Hall. This year’s theme for the sold-out event was “A Family Affair: Embrace Our Progress.”
“This merger will impact anyone who goes to movies, uses a streaming service, watches sports or cartoons, or reads the news.”
“A lot of the practices tied to nervous system ‘regulation’ — cold plunges, breathing exercises, vagus nerve stimulation — are really about helping people tolerate distress in the moment. ”
““I think the big question on people’s minds, coming out of COVID, is whether this is the start of another worldwide infectious disease problem that could spread broadly and cause a high number of deaths.” ”
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