January 23, 2020
January 23, 2020 —
For the majority of Jordan Janz’s 20 years of life, most neighbors in his tiny Canadian town never knew he was sick. Janz snowboarded, hunted and fished. He hung with friends, often playing ice hockey video games. He worked in shipping and receiving for a company that makes oil pumps.
November 14, 2019
November 14, 2019 —
Bacteriophages are viruses that specifically destroy bacteria. In the early 20th century, researchers experimented with phages as a potential method for treating bacterial infections. But then antibiotics emerged and phages fell out of favor. With the rise of antibiotic-resistant infections, however, researchers have renewed their interest in phage therapy.
October 10, 2019
October 10, 2019 —
In the fall of 2018, UC San Diego cognitive science major Christian Oshita was headed into what should have been his last and best collegiate season as a forward on the UC San Diego men’s basketball team— though it might have been difficult to top his previous two seasons, both finishing with championship banners.
June 13, 2019
June 13, 2019 —
Local biotech company Locana made news last month when it raised $55 million in venture capital funding.
June 6, 2019
June 6, 2019 —
Alysson R. Muotri loves stem cells. He runs a lab that studies them, and he’s inspired by the fascinating work colleagues around him are doing. He’s so excited that he wants to tell everyone about it.
April 11, 2019
April 11, 2019 —
Treatment with a choline kinase inhibitor prompts immune cells to clear away damaged mitochondria, thus reducing NLRP3 inflammasome activation and preventing inflammation
July 5, 2018
July 5, 2018 —
Researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego have found that the cost for the 10 “highest spend” medications in Medicare Part D — the U.S. federal government’s primary prescription drug benefit for older citizens — rose almost one-third between 2011 and 2015, even as the number of persons using these drugs dropped by the same amount.
May 10, 2018
May 10, 2018 —
That’s the goal of the All of Us Research Program, which officially opened for public enrollment this week. Led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), All of Us is an unprecedented effort to gather genetic, biological, environmental, health and lifestyle data from 1 million or more volunteer participants living in the United States. A major component of the federal Precision Medicine Initiative, the program’s ultimate goal is to accelerate research and improve health.
April 2, 2018
April 2, 2018 —
Rising drug prices have gotten a lot of attention lately, but the actual cost of prescription medications is more than just the bill. Researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego estimate that illness and death resulting from non-optimized medication therapy costs $528.4 billion annually, equivalent to 16 percent of total U.S. health care expenditures in 2016. The analysis is published March 26 by Annals of Pharmacotherapy.
March 8, 2018
March 8, 2018 —
In the 1980s and '90s, Roger Tsien at UC San Diego School of Medicine and three colleagues on the other side of the country made the invisible visible.
