February 10, 2020
February 10, 2020 —
UC San Diego researchers use 3D human gut organoids to reveal the molecular system that keeps intestinal linings sealed, demonstrate how the system breaks down and how it can be strengthened with the diabetes drug metformin.
February 7, 2020
February 7, 2020 —
The Protein Data Bank archive has released a new Coronavirus protease structure following the recent coronavirus outbreak, an ongoing viral epidemic primarily affecting mainland China that now threatens to spread to other parts of the world.
February 6, 2020
February 6, 2020 —
After identifying a molecular pathway that allows nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) to progress into liver cell death, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers were able to use these pathways to halt further liver damage.
February 6, 2020
February 6, 2020 —
Researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine have defined the most detailed list of genetic fingerprints of DNA-damaging processes that drive cancer development to date.
February 6, 2020
February 6, 2020 —
The UC San Diego campus community learned more about plans for the Future College Living and Learning Neighborhood (FCLLN) at a recent open house hosted by Campus Planning and Capital Program Management.
February 6, 2020
February 6, 2020 —
Race is shown to be the single most important factor in American democracy, determining which candidates win elections, which voters win at the polls, and who is on the losing end of policy. These conclusions are at the center of a new book entitled Dangerously Divided: How Race and Class Shape Winning and Losing in American Politics.”
February 6, 2020
February 6, 2020 —
How can cities be both smart and inclusive? And what would it look like if neighborhoods and systems were developed through the lens of an underserved community? Undergraduates at UC San Diego were challenged to think through solutions to issues and obstacles impacting black communities during a 12-hour ‘Change-a-Thon’ event held on campus Saturday.
February 6, 2020
February 6, 2020 —
o see stars that are fainter and farther away in the galaxy, astronomers need the goods—telescopes, adaptive optics, fast computers and state-of-the-art detectors. To that end, the Heising-Simons Foundation is delivering. With nearly $1 million in new funding from the foundation.
February 6, 2020
February 6, 2020 —
In November, 2019, ten UC San Diego students filed into a bustling amputee clinic in Jaipur, India. On one side of the room, men and women, some bearing crutches, watched as their new limbs took shape under the staff’s careful hands. For many of them, a prosthetic limb represented the chance to regain their mobility, independence and livelihoods.
February 5, 2020
February 5, 2020 —
An international team of scientists from Scripps Oceanography and elsewhere used data from multiple sources including observations from the global Argo network of robotic floats to find that ocean circulation is accelerating, at least partly because of greenhouse gas-induced warming of the planet.
