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Frank Würthwein Named Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center

The San Diego Supercomputer Center has a new director. Frank Würthwein, lead of SDSC’s Distributed High-Throughput Computing Group, executive director of the Open Science Grid, a physics professor and a founding faculty member of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego assumes the role

Scott Lippman to Launch NCI’s PreCancer Genome Atlas

Scott Lippman, MD, will lead the PreCancer Genome Atlas, an NCI-sponsored effort to map premalignant lesions and how they evolve into invasive cancers.

Havacado or Two. Study Finds Eating Lots of the Fruit Hass Public Health Import

Novel randomized controlled trial found that families with high consumption of avocados experienced reduced caloric intake and an overall healthier diet, without actually changing their diet.

State Stem Cell Agency Awards $4M for Blood Cancer Immunotherapy at UC San Diego

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) approved a $4.1 million grant to enable University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers to advance a new chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy from the laboratory into the clinic.

We Might Not Know Half of What’s in Our Cells, New AI Technique Reveals

Artificial intelligence-based technique reveals previously unknown cell components that may provide new clues to human development and disease.

Illuminating Dark Matter in Human DNA

UC San Diego researchers have produced a single-cell chromatin atlas for the human genome. Delineating chromatin regions in cells of different human tissue types would be a major step toward understanding the role of gene regulatory elements (non-coding DNA) in human health or disease.

A Target for Potential Cancer Drugs May, In Fact, Worsen Disease

Researchers reveal a previously unrealized complexity in cancer development, one that raises concerns and caution about targeting an enzyme popular in oncological treatments.

Not So Great Expectations: Pain in HIV Related to Brain’s Expectations of Relief

Neuroimaging study reveals potential brain mechanism underlying chronic neuropathic pain in individuals with HIV. Findings may guide new clinical treatments targeting patients’ expectations for pain relief.

One and Done: Researchers Urge Testing Eyewitness Memory Only Once

A team of psychological scientists and criminologists led by memory expert John Wixted of UC San Diego say our system of jurisprudence needs a simple no-cost reform -- testing eyewitnesses for their memory of suspects only once.

UC San Diego-Led Team Receives $9M to Advance Parkinson’s Disease Treatments

A new $9 million grant from Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) will enable advancement of UC San Diego’s discovery that inhibiting a single gene in mice converts other cell types directly into new neurons, alleviating all Parkinson’s symptoms.

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