Last-Itch Effort: Fighting the Bacteria That Exacerbate Eczema with Bacteria (external site)
Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine use bacteriotherapy to improve symptoms of atopic dermatitis.
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Large Study Reveals PTSD Has Strong Genetic Component Like Other Psychiatric Disorders (external site)
In the largest and most diverse genetic study of PTSD to date, scientists from UC San Diego School of Medicine and more than 130 institutions in the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium found that genetics accounts for five to 20 percent of the variability in PTSD risk following a traumatic event.
Landmark Precision Medicine Research Effort Releases its First Genomic Dataset (external site)
The All of Us Research Program, a nationwide effort to gather information from 1 million or more people living in the United States, then use that data to accelerate health research and medical breakthroughs, has published its first genomic dataset.
Large Study Identifies Genetic Variants Linked to Risk Tolerance and Risky Behaviors (external site)
An international group that includes researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine has identified 124 genetic variants associated with a person’s willingness to take risks, as reported in a study published January 14, 2019 in Nature Genetics.
Kids With MIS-C Mount Normal T Cell Response to COVID-19 (external site)
UC San Diego study suggests multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a rare condition associated with COVID-19, is not caused by abnormal T cell response to COVID-19 virus as previously hypothesized.
Kawasaki Disease is not a Homogenous Disease nor are its Triggers (external site)
Researchers at UC San Diego report that while Kawasaki disease occurs in clusters, the traits, and thus the triggers of the inflammatory disease vary among clusters.
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