January 16, 2020
January 16, 2020 —
A new year … and a new decade … is an opportunity to spark positive change locally and worldwide. At UC San Diego, students, faculty and staff are invited to usher in 2020 at the second annual Changemaker Week from Jan. 18–25.
January 16, 2020
January 16, 2020 —
Under the invisible beam of the scanning electron microscope, the bottom of a gecko’s foot resolved into a field of tiny hairs. As both sample and microscope sat miles away in the Nano3 laboratory of UC San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute, a high school biology class at the Kearny School of College Connections used a touch screen to zoom in and out and examine the sample in detail. With 60,000 times the magnification and more than 500 times the resolution of the average classroom microscope, the high-powered machine offered students a rare chance to see the world as scientists.
January 16, 2020
January 16, 2020 —
On a recent sunny day at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, a team of specialized zookeepers collected breast milk samples from two female elephants nursing their 1-year-old calves. Unlike the mechanical breast pumps used by human mothers, or the machines employed by dairy cow farmers, the process requires hands-on expertise. It’s something of a mammoth effort: Success depends a lot upon how the elephant mothers, called dams, are feeling that day.
January 15, 2020
January 15, 2020 —
Researchers say a gene known to be a biomarker of age plays a key role in age-associated functional and anatomical aging in mouse retinas, a finding that has direct relevance to age-related eye diseases.
January 15, 2020
January 15, 2020 —
The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) has adopted an open-source, cloud-based platform led out of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) that addresses widely recognized challenges with historical platforms throughout the cardiothoracic surgical community.
January 14, 2020
January 14, 2020 —
Using novel imaging technologies, researchers produce first whole-brain atlas at single-cell resolution, revealing how alcohol addiction and abstinence remodel neural physiology and function in mice.
January 14, 2020
January 14, 2020 —
University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers report that patients with prostate cancer assigned to eat seven or more servings of vegetables and fruits daily saw no extra protection from the increased consumption of micronutrients, running contrary to current thought.
January 14, 2020
January 14, 2020 —
Researchers at University of California San Diego have discovered that when certain microbes pair up, stunning floral patterns emerge. When non-motile E. coli are placed on an agar surface together with motile A. baylyi, the E. coli “catch a wave” at the front of the expanding A. baylyi colony.
January 13, 2020
January 13, 2020 —
New research from the University of California San Diego finds that solar geoengineering—the intentional reflection of sunlight away from the Earth’s surface—may reduce income inequality between countries.
January 13, 2020
January 13, 2020 —
University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers identified how THC from marijuana accelerates cancer growth in patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive head and neck cancer.
