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Supercomputer Simulations Show How DNA Prepares Itself for Repair

June 25, 2020

Researchers from Harvard University and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston recently used the Comet supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California San Diego to uncover the novel ways in which DNA prepares itself for repair.

Rady School of Management Students Gain Opportunity to Assist with COVID-19 Recovery

June 25, 2020

Students at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management are getting a hands-on opportunity to give back to the community and assist with COVID-19 business recovery efforts in San Diego.

Bringing a Child into the World, While the World Battles COVID-19

June 25, 2020

It was Halloween 2019 when Gene Yeo and Corina Antal learned they were going to have twin girls. They also learned that day that their daughters were monoamniotic (MoMo) twins, which means the fetuses shared a single placenta and amniotic sac.

UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Launches Research Ethics Project

June 25, 2020

How can faculty encourage conversations about ethical research in their labs? What are reasonable expectations for mentoring? How do you decide who is the first author on a paper? Who should students turn to if they feel they’re being asked to publish unrepeatable results?

Public Health Students Graduate and Enter the Workforce During Unprecedented Times

June 25, 2020

The first graduating class of the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science listened, on June 12, 2020, to the school’s founding dean and the university’s first Black, female dean Cheryl Anderson, PhD, MPH, during a commencement ceremony conducted by video conference.

How Race Shapes Who Wins and Who loses in U.S. Democracy

June 25, 2020

Hajnal is author of the new book “Dangerously Divided How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American Politics” which shows how race more than class or any other demographic factor shapes not only how Americans vote but also who wins and who loses when the votes are counted and policies are enacted.

Skewing the Vote

June 25, 2020

Voter ID laws are becoming more common and more strict, and the stakes for American democracy are high and growing higher by the year. New research from the University of California San Diego provides evidence that voter ID laws disproportionately reduce voter turnout in more racially diverse areas.

From Prison to Physics: ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go!’

June 25, 2020

Ph.D. candidate goes from inmate to President’s Dissertation Year Fellow with accountability, community and a Dr. Seuss book.

UC San Diego Once Again Rated World’s No. 1 “Golden Age” University

June 24, 2020

For the fourth year in a row, the University of California San Diego has been ranked by Times Higher Education the world’s number one university founded during the “Golden Age” of higher education.

One-Time Treatment Generates New Neurons, Eliminates Parkinson’s Disease in Mice

June 24, 2020

UC San Diego researchers have discovered that a single treatment to inhibit a gene called PTB in mice converts native astrocytes, brain support cells, into neurons that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine. As a result, the mice’s Parkinson’s disease symptoms disappear.
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