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Cancer Isn’t Taking a Timeout for COVID-19; Neither are Clinical Trials

July 23, 2020

Cancer doesn’t stop because of a pandemic. People diagnosed with cancer must continue lifesaving treatment. Sometimes the only options are clinical trials. That is why, despite some modifications, UC San Diego Health has continued its cancer clinical trial enrollment.

Expanding Treatment Options for Severe Brain Trauma

July 23, 2020

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized room or tube and is commonly used to treat decompression sickness or wounds that resist healing. A new research study at UC San Diego Health called Hyperbaric Oxygen Brain Injury Treatment assess whether the approach might also benefit patients with severe brain injuries.

Chemists, Physicists Create Spongy Droplets to Mimic Cellular Organelles

July 22, 2020

With a bottom-up approach to synthetic biology, UC San Diego Chemist Neal Devaraj, Physicist Sunil Sinha and a team of researchers showed that lipid sponge droplets can be programmed to function like cellular organelles.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Partners with NOAA for Unmanned Systems Research

July 22, 2020

NOAA’s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego are partnering to improve how unmanned systems (UxS) are used to collect important ocean observations and augment NOAA’s operational capabilities.https://www.noaa.

Novel ‘On-off’ Switch Discovered in Plant Defenses

July 21, 2020

Researchers investigating the ways that plants protect themselves—from insects to pathogens—have discovered an “on-off” switch that controls plant defensive mechanisms. The finding lays the groundwork for improved plant disease resistance and food stability.

Mathematician, Engineer receive Newton Award for Transformative Ideas during COVID-19 Pandemic

July 21, 2020

Two UC San Diego professors are among 13 Newton Award recipients, out of a pool of 548 applicants, for their vision to study and efficiently simulate complex interconnected systems for long-term analysis.

Non-invasive Blood Test Can Detect Cancer Four Years Before Conventional Diagnosis Methods

July 21, 2020

An international team of researchers has developed a non-invasive blood test that can detect whether an individual has one of five common types of cancers, four years before the condition can be diagnosed with current methods.

New Model Connects Respiratory Droplet Physics with Spread of Covid-19

July 20, 2020

Engineers have incorporated a new understanding of the impact of environmental factors on droplet spread into a mathematical model that can be used to predict the early spread of respiratory viruses including COVID-19, and the role of respiratory droplets in that spread.

Band of Astronomers Finds Low Heavy Metal in Brown Dwarf Discoveries

July 17, 2020

Astronomers in UC San Diego’s Cool Star Lab, directed by Adam Burgasser, have contributed to the discovery of two unusual brown dwarfs containing atypical amounts of heavy elements in their atmospheres.

Researchers Discover Two Paths of Aging and New Insights on Promoting Healthspan

July 16, 2020

Scientists have unraveled key mechanisms behind the mysteries of aging. They isolated two paths that cells travel during aging and engineered a new way to genetically program these aging routes. The researchers also identified a master circuit that guides the aging processes.
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