July 27, 2020
July 27, 2020 —
Researchers at Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that inhibiting a key enzyme caused human cancer cells associated with two major types of breast and ovarian cancer to die and in mouse studies reduced tumor growth.
July 27, 2020
July 27, 2020 —
Materials scientists studying battery recharging fundamentals made an astonishing discovery that could open the door to better batteries, faster catalysts and other materials science leaps.
July 24, 2020
July 24, 2020 —
UC San Diego’s Daniel Green set out to find a signal for the quantum origin of structure by applying theoretical techniques used to understand the way particles scatter in colliders.
July 24, 2020
July 24, 2020 —
UC San Diego Health and the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute will be sites for an accelerated national clinical trial to assess the efficacy and immunogenicity of a vaccine intended to protect against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
July 23, 2020
July 23, 2020 —
In the midst of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic that had UC San Diego researchers racing to understand the complexities around the virus’s spread and to find ways to combat it, engineers and fabrication specialists at the Qualcomm Institute’s Prototyping Lab leapt into action.
July 23, 2020
July 23, 2020 —
What is the goal of the Return to Learn program? What role does testing play in preventing an outbreak? UC San Diego infectious disease modeler Natasha Martin addresses top questions from the campus community.
July 23, 2020
July 23, 2020 —
A new UC San Diego report examining female representation in the STEM workforce highlights both historic progress and troubling trends occurring simultaneously. It paints a lopsided picture for one of the nation’s most robust and high-paying career fields when it comes to gender parity.
July 23, 2020
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.
July 23, 2020
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.
July 22, 2020
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.
