October 25, 2018
October 25, 2018 —
Researchers have trained a machine learning algorithm to identify and predict which genes make infectious bacteria resistant to antibiotics. The approach was tested on strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis—the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) in humans. It identified 33 known and 24 new antibiotic resistance genes in these bacteria. The approach could be used to predict resistance in other infection-causing pathogens.
October 25, 2018
October 25, 2018 —
In the beginning—and near the end—Steffanie Strathdee’s only goal was to save her husband’s life. In 2016, Tom Patterson lay unresponsive in a coma at the Thornton Intensive Care Unit, part of the Jacobs Medical Center at UC San Diego Health. He was stricken by a multidrug-resistant bacteria that had systemically overwhelmed his body, defying all modern antibiotic treatment.
October 25, 2018
October 25, 2018 —
“In the past six years, UC San Diego Health has invested more than $1.3 billion dollars in patient care facilities. Its world-class hospitals and clinics are open to you and your family,” said Patty Maysent, CEO, UC San Diego Health. “We now have more doctors and locations to choose from, hopefully close to you.”
October 25, 2018
October 25, 2018 —
This year, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation renewed support for the campus UCEM fellowship program, which will offer 18 fellowship awards to incoming graduate students in the Jacobs School of Engineering and Division of Physical Sciences.
October 25, 2018
October 25, 2018 —
It is estimated that humans now produce 420 million tons of plastic annually, with a significant portion of that entering our oceans. Because plastic does not break down quickly, it is now considered one of the world’s most significant environmental threats. In an effort to help address the planet’s overage of plastic, UC San Diego recently became the first in the United States to install a road that utilizes recycled plastic.
October 25, 2018
October 25, 2018 —
In the summer of 2018, over five weeks in July and August, a group of UC San Diego students got to experience both kinds of accounts, learning directly from native Kumeyaay Indians and also learning from the land, as they gathered data on a prehistoric site at an ancestral Kumeyaay home on the La Posta Reservation.
October 24, 2018
October 24, 2018 —
The mechanism leading to development of type 1 diabetes remains a mystery, hampering the ability to find new ways to prevent, treat or even cure this condition. With a new $3.3 million grant, University of California School of Medicine researchers hope to create a high resolution reference map of pancreatic cells that will identify molecular changes that arise during type 1 diabetes.
October 24, 2018
October 24, 2018 —
Invention Science Fund, the incubator arm of Intellectual Ventures, and San Diego’s Legler Benbough Foundation will contribute $1 million in combined sponsorship funds to the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur at the University of California San Diego to help accelerate new startup companies.
October 24, 2018
October 24, 2018 —
A team of U.S. computer scientists is receiving a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation to make machine learning more secure. The grant establishes the Center for Trustworthy Machine Learning at a consortium of seven universities, including the University of California San Diego. Researchers will work together toward two goals: understanding the risks inherent to machine learning; and developing the tools, metrics and methods to manage and mitigate these risks.
October 22, 2018
October 22, 2018 —
Using a novel biomarker panel to track and measure kidney function, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and University of California San Francisco School of Medicine report that lowering systolic blood pressure to less than 120 mm Hg does not damage the kidney organ itself. Instead, any negative changes to clinical results are more likely due to decreased blood flow.
