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Six Solutions against Climate Change: Researchers Launch Call-Action for Rapid Response to Mobilize Solutions

Science & Environment

On the Origin of Life: How the First Cell Membranes Came to Exist

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Scientists Go to Great Heights to Understand Changes in Earth’s Atmosphere

Science & Environment

Human activities—from growing rice and burning coal or wood, to driving cars and testing nuclear missiles—have impacted the Earth’s atmosphere over time. Cleansing the Earth’s environment is of growing interest in the new era of humanity, unofficially called the Anthropocene epoch. To better understand the impact of the human biogeochemical footprint on Earth, scientists at the University of California San Diego are literally climbing mountains to study the planet’s sulfur cycle—an agent in cardiovascular fitness and other human health benefits and resources.

Scripps Graduate Student Discovers World’s First Known Manta Ray Nursery

Science & Environment

A graduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and colleagues from NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries have discovered the world’s first known manta ray nursery. Located in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas at NOAA’s Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, the juvenile manta ray habitat is the first of its kind to be described in a scientific study.

Scripps Graduate Student Discovers World’s First Known Manta Ray Nursery

Greater Levels of Vitamin D Associated with Decreasing Risk of Breast Cancer

Health & Behavior

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine suggest higher levels of vitamin D are associated with decreasing risk of breast cancer. Their epidemiological study is published in the June 15 online issue of PLOS ONE, in collaboration with Creighton University, Medical University of South Carolina and GrassrootsHealth, an Encinitas-based nonprofit organization that promotes vitamin D research and its therapeutic benefits.

Greater Levels of Vitamin D Associated with Decreasing Risk of Breast Cancer

Two UC San Diego Biologists Named Pew Scholars

Health & Behavior

The Pew Charitable Trusts has announced that UC San Diego Biological Sciences Assistant Professors Matthew Daugherty and Enfu Hui have been selected to the 2018 class of Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences. Pew also announced that Diego Alvarez and Grisel Cruz Becerra, Biological Sciences postdoctoral researchers, have been named new Pew Latin American Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences.

Two UC San Diego Biologists Named Pew Scholars

A Sprinkle of Platinum Nanoparticles Onto Graphene Makes Brain Probes More Sensitive

Health & Behavior

Graphene electrodes could enable higher quality imaging of brain cell activity thanks to new research by a team of engineers and neuroscientists at the University of California San Diego. The researchers developed a technique, using platinum nanoparticles, to lower the impedance of graphene electrodes by 100 times while keeping them transparent. In tests on transgenic mice, the electrodes were able to record and image neuronal activity (calcium ion spikes) at both the macroscale and single cell levels.

A Sprinkle of Platinum Nanoparticles Onto Graphene Makes Brain Probes More Sensitive

SDSC Comet and Machine Learning Simulates H2O with “Unprecedented Accuracy”

Health & Behavior

A team led by researchers at UC San Diego’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and SDSC has used machine learning techniques to develop models for simulations of water with “unprecedented accuracy.” Published online in The Journal of Chemical Physics, the research demonstrates how popular ML techniques can be used to construct predictive molecular models based on quantum mechanical reference data.