July 6, 2023
July 6, 2023 —
Plant and animal stem cells both rely on the cytoskeleton to divide properly, but a new study finds that they use them in opposite ways—while animal cells pull on the cytoskeleton, plant cells push it away. Harnessing that action could help scientists engineer more resilient plants.
July 5, 2023
July 5, 2023 —
Using CRISPR technology, UC San Diego scientists have engineered a new way to genetically suppress populations of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquitoes that primarily spread malaria in Africa and contribute to economic poverty in affected regions.
July 4, 2023
July 4, 2023 —
UC San Diego Police have arrested three individuals, two of them students and one a recent graduate, in the felony vandalism of the Marine Conservation and Technology Facility on May 30.
July 3, 2023
July 3, 2023 —
Revered economist and Nobel Laureate Harry Markowitz, a former adjunct professor at the University of California San Diego Rady School of Management, died on June 22. He was 95.
July 3, 2023
July 3, 2023 —
UC San Diego undergraduate students are learning to apply extended reality tools to interdisciplinary projects at the Qualcomm Institute.
June 29, 2023
June 29, 2023 —
In recognition of San Diego Pride, we invited Jeanette Starpine (they/she), director of Education, Outreach and Diversity for the NSF Center for Aerosols Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment (CAICE), to share their coming out story and how to celebrate Pride this year.
June 29, 2023
June 29, 2023 —
The University of California San Diego has earned 5 stars–the highest rating available–in Money’s Best Colleges in America 2023 list. The outlet named UC San Diego one of only 13 public universities in the nation to receive a 5-star rating.
June 29, 2023
June 29, 2023 —
A statement from Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla on the Supreme Court ruling regarding the use of race in admissions
June 28, 2023
June 28, 2023 —
In a first-of-its-kind comparison, UC San Diego scientists have shown that pollination by honey bees, which are not native to the Americas, produces offspring of considerably inferior quality (lower fitness) than offspring resulting from native pollinators.
June 28, 2023
June 28, 2023 —
UC San Diego researchers find a combination of drugs outperformed other treatments in human and mouse models of pancreatic cancer; now urge clinical trial
