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Building an Objective, Lower-Cost and Portable Glaucoma Screening Tool

Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in the world, affecting more than 80 million people. However, because the disease remains largely asymptomatic as it progresses, researchers estimate that more than 50 percent of individuals are unaware that they’re afflicted until it’s too late.

‘Body Practices’ Exhibition Explores Interface between Virtual and Physical Bodies

An upcoming exhibition in the gallery@calit2 at the University of California, San Diego will explore notions of virtual and physical presence. Body Practices opens November 5 , 2014 with a panel discussion at 5pm with artists represented in the exhibition, followed by a 6pm reception. The panel and reception are open to the public and free of charge.

Viral Switches Share a Shape

A hinge in the RNA genome of the virus that causes hepatitis C works like a switch that can be flipped to prevent it from replicating in infected cells. Scientists have discovered that this shape is shared by several other viruses—among them one that kills cancer cells.

Cell membranes self-assemble

A self-driven reaction can assemble phospholipid membranes like those that enclose cells, a team of chemists at the University of California, San Diego, reports in Angewandte Chemie.

Real-time Readout of Neurochemical Activity

Scientists have created cells with fluorescent dyes that change color in response to specific neurochemicals. By implanting these cells into living mammalian brains, they have shown how neurochemical signaling changes as a food reward drives learning, they report in Nature Methods online October 26.

UC San Diego Named Stem Cell “Alpha Clinic”

In a push to further speed clinical development of emerging stem cell therapies, Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center at UC San Diego Health System was named today one of three new “alpha clinics” by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state’s stem cell agency.

Deborah Zmarzly Named Interim Director at Birch Aquarium at Scripps

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, has named Scripps alumna Deborah Zmarzly, Ph.D., as interim director. Zmarzly has been with Birch Aquarium since 1993, devoting more than 20 years to making science accessible and interpreting Scripps research for the public.

UC San Diego Students Help Design Toddler-Tantrum-Proof Plate

It’s a scene that many parents have witnessed, helplessly. It’s time for dinner and your toddler is getting restless. The object of their wrath? The dinner plate, which goes flying off the table and spills its contents all over the floor.

Seismic Network Will Measure the Effects of Ocean Waves on Antarctic Ice Shelves

Starting in November, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, researchers and colleagues will embark on an ambitious and arduous mission funded by the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs to install a seismic array on Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf.

UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla Welcomes Binational Leaders for Global Diaspora Week

UC San Diego’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (USMEX) played host to an official stop on the International Diaspora Engagement Alliance’s tour Oct. 13. The stop was one of 65 events the Alliance held around the world dedicated to diaspora communities and their contributions to global development as part of Global Diaspora Week, Oct. 12 to 18.

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