Scientists Uncover Key Driver of Treatment-Resistant Cancer
UC San Diego scientists have identified the enzyme that shatters cancer genomes and helps them evolve to resist treatment, solving a longstanding mystery in the molecular biology of cancer.
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UC San Diego Launches Soil Health Center to Advance Climate Solutions, Food Security
Experts across UC San Diego have united to launch the Soil Health Center at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Established in fall 2025, the center brings together an interdisciplinary team that’s digging — sometimes literally — into research on building and maintaining healthy soils.
Three UC San Diego Professors Inducted Into the National Academy of Inventors for 2025
Three professors at the University of California San Diego have been elected to the 2025 Class of Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI): Ping Liu, Bernhard Palsson and Alan Saltiel. They are recognized for their innovations in sustainable manufacturing, batteries and metabolic research.
Three-Hit Model Describes the Causes of Autism
A new UC San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic predispositions and environmental exposures converge to cause autism spectrum disorder.
How the Immune System Stalls Weight Loss
UC San Diego researchers have discovered that immune cells in the blood play a key role in preventing excess weight loss; results could help yield new approaches to obesity and other metabolic disorders.
New Online Tool Detects Drug Exposure Directly from Patient Samples
A new online library analyzes biological samples from patients to directly detect what drugs they have been exposed to beyond what is listed in their medical record.
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Some People Get Drunk Without Drinking and Scientists Finally Know Why
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UC San Diego lab lands FDA approval for breakthrough clinical trials
La Jolla Light, December 31
UC San Diego research model outlines autism factors in effort to prevent or reduce it
La Jolla Light, December 15
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