March 11, 2021
March 11, 2021 —
Violence in Mexico has been on the rise and it is increasingly difficult to understand. Though popular portrayals of the bloodshed depict it as a product of Hollywood-esque conflicts between cartels, experts now recognize that the drivers of violence are more nuanced.
March 10, 2021
March 10, 2021 —
A gene therapy for chronic pain could offer a safer, non-addictive alternative to opioids. By temporarily repressing a gene involved in sensing pain, the treatment increased pain tolerance in mice, lowered their sensitivity to pain and provided months of pain relief without causing numbness.
March 9, 2021
March 9, 2021 —
Bioengineers at UC San Diego and San Diego State University have discovered a key feature that allows cancer cells to break from typical cell behavior and migrate away from stiffer tissue in a tumor, shedding light on the process of metastasis and offering possible new targets for cancer therapies.
March 9, 2021
March 9, 2021 —
This shirt harvests and stores energy from the human body to power small electronics. UC San Diego nanoengineers call it a "wearable microgrid"—it combines energy from the wearer's sweat and movement to provide renewable power for wearable devices.
March 9, 2021
March 9, 2021 —
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center demonstrated that a new tumor-penetrating therapy could enhance the effects of chemotherapy, reduce the spread of pancreatic cancer and increase survival in animal models.
March 8, 2021
March 8, 2021 —
A coordinated conservation effort that removed rats from Hawadax Island, formerly known as “Rat Island,” has become a new example of how ecosystems can fully recover to their natural state in little more than a decade. The results are described in a report led by a UC San Diego scientist.
March 5, 2021
March 5, 2021 —
New research published in two papers by UC San Diego scientists describes novel achievements designed to make the implementation of gene drives safer and more controllable. The new split drive and home-and-rescue systems address concerns about the release of gene drives in wild populations.
March 5, 2021
March 5, 2021 —
Researchers have shown that three-layered surgical masks are more effective than single or double-layered masks at stopping large droplets from a cough or sneeze from getting atomized into smaller droplets and penetrating through the mask.
March 5, 2021
March 5, 2021 —
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego examining 14 years of hospital admissions data conclude that the fine particles in wildfire smoke can be several times more harmful to human respiratory health than particulate matter from other sources such as car exhaust.
March 5, 2021
March 5, 2021 —
In a study published in the March 5, 2021 online edition of Cerebral Cortex, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that specific regions of the brain respond to emotional stimuli related to loneliness and wisdom in opposing ways.
