July 11, 2019
July 11, 2019 —
A dysfunctional enzyme involved in building cancer cell membranes helps fuel tumor growth; when it’s disabled or depleted in mouse models, tumors shrank significantly.
July 10, 2019
July 10, 2019 —
President Donald J. Trump recently announced recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), including four faculty members from the University of California San Diego.
July 10, 2019
July 10, 2019 —
The UC San Diego Library is embarking on a new effort with the Texas Digital Library to co-create a blueprint for the first nationally Distributed Digital Preservation service for private and sensitive data.
July 9, 2019
July 9, 2019 —
California already has the most volatile water resources in the country. Scripps scientists discovered that the state’s precipitation, as it becomes less frequent but preferentially stronger, will vacillate even more wildly between extremes of drought and flooding as a consequence of climate change.
July 9, 2019
July 9, 2019 —
NJIT Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor Dibakar Datta and his team used the Comet supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center to create simulations of graphene-water interactions to see if graphene is a good candidate for delivering medicine to specific parts of the body.
July 9, 2019
July 9, 2019 —
Scientists may come one step closer to understanding the conditions of the universe moments after its inception, thanks to a future commitment of $20 million made by the Simons Foundation.
July 9, 2019
July 9, 2019 —
As the data science hub at UC San Diego celebrates its first full year in operation, and in a new video by Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute highlights its successes and building for the future of the emerging discipline
July 8, 2019
July 8, 2019 —
Did social media spoil the Avengers’ Endgame movie for you? Or maybe one of the Game of Thrones books? A team of researchers from the University of California San Diego is working to make sure that doesn’t happen again. They have developed an AI-based system that can flag spoilers in online reviews of books and TV shows.
July 8, 2019
July 8, 2019 —
UC San Diego will launch a payload of stem cell-derived human brain organoids to the International Space Station. Researchers will document how these “mini brains” organize into the beginnings of a functional brain with implications for the future of human life in space.
July 3, 2019
July 3, 2019 —
On July 1, 2019, USC and UC San Diego reached a settlement in the ongoing Alzheimer’s disease research lawsuit, Regents of the University of California v. Aisen et al.
