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SDSC Sherlock Cloud adds Google Cloud Platform to Extend its Multi-Cloud Service

SDSC's Sherlock Division has expanded its multi-Cloud solution, Sherlock Cloud, to include the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in addition to AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Novel Antisense Drug Shows Promise in Slowing Fatty Liver Disease

A first-in-class clinical trial suggests a novel treatment measurably slowed progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease to its more progressive and deadly form.

Longitudinal Study of Brain Aging and Cognitive Change Receives $19 Million Grant

Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues elsewhere, will receive almost $19 million over five years for the fourth phase of the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging, which investigates cognition, aging and the risk for mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease.

Putting ‘Super’ in Natural Killer Cells

Using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and deleting a key gene, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have created natural killer cells — a type of immune cell — with measurably stronger activity against a form of leukemia, both in vivo and in vitro.

How Stimulus Dollars are Spent will Affect Emissions for Decades

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have led to a record crash in emissions. But it will be emission levels during the recovery—in the months and years after the pandemic recedes—that matter most for how global warming plays out.

UC San Diego’s CREATE and SDSC Awarded National K-12 STEM Grant

The U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense STEM Education Consortium (DESC) has awarded a one-year grant to SDSC and the UC San Diego Mathematics Project to introduce computing into high school math classrooms.