Vicious Circles: Ring-shaped DNA Provides Cancer Cells with a Malignant Twist
Health & BehaviorUC San Diego researchers describe how circular extrachromosomal DNA in cancer cells boosts aggressiveness and resistance to therapies.
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Horror & Hope: A Conversation with ‘Man in Love’ Director Stephen Buescher
HumanitiesOpening Nov. 20 for a limited run, the second production in the Department of Theatre and Dance fall season is “Man in Love,” a “horror and hope” play about race, love and terror. First time directing at UC San Diego, Stephen Buescher said students are easily early career artists.
Local Increases in Immigrants Didn’t Drive Voters to Trump
Business & EconomicsDid Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign benefit from voters’ fears of immigrants in communities experiencing greater demographic change? New research shows the answer is “no,” a finding that contradicts the conventional wisdom and which surprised even the political scientists who conducted t
SDSC, Wisconsin University IceCube Center Conduct GPU Cloudburst Experiment
Health & BehaviorSDSC and the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) successfully completed a computational experiment as part of a multi-institution collaboration that marshalled all globally available for sale GPUs (graphics processing units) across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google.
Discovering the Magic Number of Earth Ice Molecules
Science & EnvironmentAn international team of researchers, including scientists from UC San Diego, identified the number of molecules it takes to turn water into ice, solving a decades-old chemistry mystery.
Genetic Variation in Individual Brain Cell Types May Predict Disease Risk
Health & BehaviorResearchers identified non-coding regions of the human genome that control the development and function of four brain cell types and mapped genetic risk variants for psychiatric diseases. They found that risk variants for Alzheimer’s disease were enriched in microglia-specific regulatory elements.
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