November 5, 2020
November 5, 2020 —
With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and in partnership with the San Diego Community College District, the UC San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities is launching the Integrated Internship fellowship, awarding full funding to three Ph.D. students for the 2020-2021 academic year.
November 5, 2020
November 5, 2020 —
Testing for COVID-19 antibodies can provide important information for communities, informing epidemiologists whether someone has had an infection. Yet for testing to provide a good understanding, take-up needs to be broad and independent of income, political orientation or ethnicity.
November 4, 2020
November 4, 2020 —
Finding just the right model to study human development—from the early embryonic stage onward—has been a challenge for scientists over the last decade. Now, bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have homed in on an unusual candidate: teratomas.
November 3, 2020
November 3, 2020 —
UC scientists have made a major advance in the use of genetic technologies to control the transmission of malaria parasites. They employed a strategy known as population modification, which uses a CRISPR-Cas9 gene drive system to introduce genes preventing parasite transmission in mosquitoes.
November 3, 2020
November 3, 2020 —
Researchers with UC San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center say active surveillance is safe for African American men with low-risk prostate cancer.
October 30, 2020
October 30, 2020 —
Research proposals by Professors Michael Burkart and Jon Pokorski were selected for funding as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Plastics Innovation Challenge to accelerate energy-efficient plastics recycling technologies.
October 30, 2020
October 30, 2020 —
Researchers determined that COVID-19 transmission risk via Halloween candies is low, even when they are handled by infected people, but handwashing and disinfecting collected sweets reduces risk even further.
October 29, 2020
October 29, 2020 —
Climate change advocate Marshall Saunders was widely known as a man who paired a deep respect for others with determination to make a difference.
October 29, 2020
October 29, 2020 —
As part of the Return to Learn program, UC San Diego’s campus privacy officer, Pegah Parsi addresses questions from students, faculty and staff about how student and employee health records are protected, what information is stored, who is informed of test results and more.
October 29, 2020
October 29, 2020 —
On Oct. 29, 2020 the National Science Foundation (NSF) approved a $53 million grant to a consortium of the country’s top ocean-research institutions to build a global network of chemical and biological sensors that will monitor ocean health.
