Patients are being healed with a personalized treatment that repairs the patient’s specific genetic mutation. The treatment was created using a form of gene editing called base editing —a method created by UC San Diego’s Alexis Komor. Her latest research outlines the way certain DNA repair proteins
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More than 90% of popular freshwater game fish in Southern California contained an introduced parasite capable of infecting humans, according to a new study from researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Homes, offices, parking garages, bridges and other structures across the United States are safer during earthquakes thanks to research done at UC San Diego’s outdoor earthquake shake table, which is funded in large part by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
A team of UC San Diego researchers reports that aged neurons suffer from molecular stress associated with increased risks of neurogenerative diseases.
When a patient is diagnosed with cancer, the time to treatment is critical.
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