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Uncovering the Stories of Scripps Women Oceanographers

The Arts

Artist Amy Adler in front of three portraits

Scripps-Led Coastal Data Information Program Awarded $40 Million for Cooperative Research

Science & Environment

A yellow CDIP buoy is deployed from a small boat off the coast of California.

Sleep is No Light Matter for Bees

Health & Behavior

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Researchers Operate Lab-Grown Heart Cells by Remote Control

Health & Behavior

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and their collaborators have developed a technique that allows them to speed up or slow down human heart cells growing in a dish on command — simply by shining a light on them and varying its intensity. The cells are grown on a material called graphene, which converts light into electricity, providing a more realistic environment than standard plastic or glass laboratory dishes.

Researchers Operate Lab-Grown Heart Cells by Remote Control

Global TIES Team Earns Honors For Solar Lantern Project

Science & Environment

Undergraduate students from UC San Diego designed and built an extremely affordable solar-powered lantern to provide not only light, but a source of income to a partner village in the Philippines. Their engineering and business savvy earned them the top spot in the Energy and Resources category at the Big Ideas social innovation competition at UC Berkeley, a third place finish at Booz Allen Hamilton’s Ideas Festival, and a spot at the Clinton Global Initiative University.

The circuitry of the solar lantern with its plastic encasing removed.

Researchers Identify Gene That Helps Prevent Brain Disease

Health & Behavior

A UC San Diego-led team has identified a gene that helps prevent the harmful buildup of proteins that can lead to neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. As published in Nature, the researchers found that the “Ankrd16” gene acts like a failsafe in proofreading and correcting errors to avoid the abnormal production of improper proteins.

Researchers Identify Gene That Helps Prevent Brain Disease

California’s First Accredited Geriatric Emergency Department Arrives in La Jolla

Health & Behavior

The Gary and Mary West Emergency Department at UC San Diego Health in La Jolla has been accredited as a geriatric emergency department by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). The accreditation is the first of its kind and is part of an effort to improve the quality and standards of emergency care provided to the nation’s older patients.

California’s First Accredited Geriatric Emergency Department Arrives in La Jolla

Joint Resolution: A Link Between Huntington’s Disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis

Health & Behavior

Using new analytic tools, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have decoded the epigenetic landscape for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a common autoimmune disease that affects more than 1.3 million Americans.

Joint Resolution: A Link Between Huntington’s Disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis

Scientists Find Missing Factor in Gene Activation

Health & Behavior

UC San Diego scientists have unraveled a decades-long mystery on how genes are activated. Until activated, human genes are blocked by structures known as nucleosomes, components that serve to package DNA inside cells. Scientists have been trying to determine how these nucleosome roadblocks clear out to allow genes to be turned on. Now, a team of scientists has identified a key factor that partially unravels nucleosomes and clears the way for genes to activate. The identification of “NDF,” or nucleosome destabilizing factor, is described May 14 in the journal Genes & Development. The researchers say the finding provides a new perspective on how genes are turned on and off—knowledge useful in the study of human diseases such as cancer, which can be caused by improper gene activity.