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Cancer Patients Facing Housing Instability Show Greater Risk of Mortality

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Cancer Patients Facing Housing Instability Show Greater Risk of Mortality

Adults Show Poorer Cognition, Better Well-Being with Age

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Adults Show Poorer Cognition, Better Well-Being with Age

New NSF Center of Excellence in Cyberinfrastructure Announced

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UC San Diego Researchers Analyze Critical Questions for China’s Future

Business & Economics

Leading China scholars at the UC San Diego 21st Century China Center answer critical questions for the future of China’s development and United States-China relations. Coinciding with the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th Congress, the researchers released six essays analyzing an equally important aspect of the U.S.-China relationship: current president Xi Jinping’s potential succession, geopolitics, economic policy, information control by the government and the role of the military.

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UC San Diego Scientists Create Device for Ultra-Accurate Genome Sequencing of Single Human Cells

Science & Environment

Interdisciplinary team of UC San Diego researchers develop a way to very accurately sequence and haplotype genomes from single human cells. The breakthrough appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Engineering drawing of the SISSOR device for genome sequencing and haplotyping from single human cells, including CAD design at top left, an image of the device top right filled with dye solutions -- red for fluidic channels and blue for valves and valve lines, and at bottom a zoomed-in view of the devices regions and functional modules including MDA chambers with 24 individual microreactors.

Sherlock Deploys UC’s first HIPAA-compliant Hadoop based Data Management System

Health & Behavior

The Health Cyberinfrastructure Division at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego, in partnership with University of California Office of the President (UCOP) Risk Services, has deployed a secure, HIPAA-compliant Hadoop-based Data Management System (DMS) within Sherlock Cloud.

Sherlock Deploys UC’s first HIPAA-compliant Hadoop based Data Management System

Seventy Percent of Climate Pact Signatories Include Oceans in Their Climate Change Action Plans

Science & Environment

On the eve of international climate talks taking place in Bonn, Germany, a new study led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego evaluates the extent to which parties to the historic Paris Agreement on climate have considered the oceans in their plans to address climate change. The study shows that while many countries include the oceans, a striking number do not.

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Contextual Robotics Institute Director Gets Qualcomm Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Robotic Systems

Science & Environment

Henrik Christensen, an internationally renowned expert in robotics, has been appointed as the inaugural holder of the Qualcomm Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Robotic Systems at the University of California San Diego. The chair was made possible by a generous $1 million gift from Qualcomm Incorporated and a $500,000 match from the campus Chancellor’s Chair Challenge, a program created to support the recruitment and retention of quality tenured faculty.

Contextual Robotics Institute Director Gets Qualcomm Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Robotic Systems

Zika Virus Infects Developing Brain by First Infecting Cells Meant to Defend Against It

Health & Behavior

Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Brazil, report that the Zika virus is transmitted from mother to fetus by infected cells that, ironically, will later develop into the brain’s first and primary form of defense against invasive pathogens.

Zika Virus Infects Developing Brain by First Infecting Cells Meant to Defend Against It

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Physical Activity May Have a Stronger Role than Genes in Longevity

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Photo of four seniors, two women and two men, engaging in exercise with dumbbells in their hands.

How Changes in Length of Day Change the Brain and Subsequent Behavior

Health & Behavior
A schematic showing sunlight cues neuronal signals in the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the brain.

$150 Million Gift Takes Stem Cell Research to New Heights

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T. Denny Sanford, Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD, and Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla celebrate the establishment of the UC San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute.

Cancer Patients Facing Housing Instability Show Greater Risk of Mortality

Health & Behavior
Cancer Patients Facing Housing Instability Show Greater Risk of Mortality

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SOARS: The Ocean Simulator Making Waves in Climate Science

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UC San Diego Health Ranks #1 in San Diego by U.S. News and World Report

UC San Diego Health Ranks #1 in San Diego by U.S. News and World Report

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UC San Diego Health Ranks #1 in San Diego by U.S. News and World Report

Little Blue Penguins Make San Diego Debut at Birch Aquarium

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