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Astrophysicists Locate 100 New Sunny Neighbors with Citizens’ Help

A new discovery by a Backyard Worlds team of citizen scientists and international astrophysicists, including researchers from UC San Diego, shows that about 100 cool brown dwarfs, never before observed, are in residence in the solar community.

Paying It Forward, the Ong Family Gives $2M Gift to the UC San Diego School of Medicine

Inspired by a commitment to ‘paying it forward,’ the Ong Family has made a gift of $2 million to support the educational needs and priorities of UC San Diego’s School of Medicine.

Diamonds, Pencils Inspire Scientists to Create Multipurpose Protein Tool

Findings from a group of researchers, including a UC San Diego team, show how it’s possible to create a protein “multitool.” Their results provide a deeper understanding of how society can develop new materials with unique properties to solve real-world problems.

Evolutionary Stalling: Researchers Explore the Boundaries of Natural Selection

What are the boundaries of natural selection? Research published in PNAS shows that even natural selection has a tough time optimizing performance simultaneously across multiple components of the cell. They call the concept "evolutionary stalling."

Extrachromosomal DNA is common in human cancer and drives poor patient outcomes

The multiplication of genes located in extrachromosomal DNA that have the potential to cause cancer drives poor patient outcomes across many cancer types, according to a Nature Genetics study published Aug. 17, 2020 by a team of researchers including the University of California San Diego.

Why Young and Female Patients Don’t Respond as Well to Cancer Immunotherapy

UC San Diego researchers discovered that tumor cells in younger and female patients accumulate cancer-causing mutations that are more poorly presented to the immune system, better enabling tumors to escape detection and clearance.

UC San Diego Named 4th Best Public Research University in Prestigious Global Rankings

The University of California San Diego has been named the fourth best public university in the United States for the second consecutive year by the 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).

SDSC’s Comet Supercomputer Helps Uncover Noisy Neutron Star Collisions

A series of simulations using multiple supercomputers, including Comet at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, suggests that when the neutron stars’ masses are different enough, the result is far noisier, making them easier to detect.

Walking the Walk of Change

Women in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry are taking bold steps toward increased balance and fairness on campus.

Chemist Helps Bridge Underrepresented Minority Gap in Science

UC San Diego paved PATHS to success for under-resourced and underrepresented minority (URM) students in STEM more than a year ago. Now, it has built a bridge, thanks to support from a National Science Foundation grant administered through the American Chemical Society.