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Study Identifies Previously Missed DNA Mutation Pattern in Colorectal Cancer

Researchers identified a previously overlooked pattern of DNA mutations in colorectal cancer. The pattern had been detected in large cancer-genome datasets before, but researchers had interpreted it as a combination of other, already known mutation patterns.

How Do Cells Learn to Move in Unison?

Scientists have long-wondered how sheets of cells begin to move together to form organs. UC San Diego researchers used live imaging, genetic experiments and mathematical modeling to understand how cells in the fruit fly egg chamber synchronize movement with each other.

Robotic Ocean Glider Reveals Giant Phytoplankton Chains in the Mediterranean Sea

A specialized camera allowed researchers to discover large phytoplankton that would have been nearly impossible to detect using conventional methods. The discovery changes how scientists understand the ocean's food web.

How Brain Ripples Keep Memory Online

Working memory is essential to our daily functioning, but there are still unanswered questions about how it works. UC San Diego researchers are helping answer them.

Rebecsinib Clinical Trial Means New Options for Blood Cancer

A clinical trial of rebecsinib — an investigational drug that inhibits the ADAR1 gene involved in the growth of more than 20 cancers — is underway at UC San Diego.

Insect-inspired electronic nose: turning semiconductor chips into olfactory sensors

Bioengineers at UC San Diego integrated the olfactory receptor of an insect called a jumping bristletail into semiconductor chips made of graphene, creating an electronic nose capable of sniffing out a wide variety of small organic compounds.

Adolescent Substance Use Continues to Rise Through Mid-Teens, National Study Finds

Researchers from UC San Diego analyzed the latest data from one of the nation’s largest long-term studies of youth to better understand when substance use begins, how it changes during adolescence and which substances are most commonly used together.

First Ever Reported Cryo-EM Visualization of E. coli TGT Structure

Scientists use E. coli TGT as a primary model to understand how TGT works in other bacteria, but have struggled to visualize its atomic structure. UC San Diego biochemistry professor Neal Devaraj’s lab has captured the first cryo-EM visualizations of E. coli TGT structure.

Underwater Oxygen Loss Threatens Earth’s Stability, Researchers Warn

A new review paper led by scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography warns that the rapid loss of oxygen from the ocean and other aquatic ecosystems is pushing Earth toward an “unsafe space,” with consequences that could be irreversible on human timescales.

Scientists Unravel the Fast-Moving ‘Butterfly Effect’ of the Deep Ocean

Scripps Oceanography researchers and colleagues found that deep ocean turbulence affects our lives not on a scale of thousands of years as was previously thought, but within the span of a human lifetime.

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