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Variants in Non-Coding DNA Contribute to Inherited Autism Risk

Health & Behavior

In recent years, researchers have firmly established that gene mutations appearing for the first time, called de novo mutations, contribute to approximately one-third of cases of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In a new study, an international team led by scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have identified a culprit that may explain some of the remaining risk: rare inherited variants in regions of non-coding DNA.

Variants in Non-Coding DNA Contribute to Inherited Autism Risk

Researchers Find Resilience Counteracts Effects of Childhood Abuse and Neglect on Health

Health & Behavior

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have determined that psychological resilience has a positive effect on health outcomes for people living with schizophrenia. This is the first study to quantitatively assess the effects of both childhood trauma and psychological resilience on health and metabolic function in people living with schizophrenia.

Researchers Find Resilience Counteracts Effects of Childhood Abuse and Neglect on Health

Mother’s Depression Might Do the Same to Her Child’s IQ

Health & Behavior

Roughly one in 10 women in the United States will experience depression, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The consequences, however, may extend to their children, report researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, who found that a mother's depression can negatively affect a child's cognitive development up to the age of 16.

Mother’s Depression Might Do the Same to Her Child’s IQ

UC San Diego’s Engineering and Management Schools Continue to Strengthen Collaborations

Business & Economics

The University of California San Diego has emerged as a leader in how engineering and management schools within one university can collaborate in order to strengthen entrepreneurship education, startup creation, and the commercialization of innovation. The latest move: a pair of unique endowed chair professorships. The Jacobs Family Chairs in Engineering Management Leadership have been awarded to the two professors leading the UC San Diego Institute for the Global Entrepreneur, which is the centerpiece of the collaboration between the Jacobs School of Engineering and the Rady School of Management.

UC San Diego’s Engineering and Management Schools Continue to Strengthen Collaborations

Researchers Develop First Gene Drive Targeting Worldwide Crop Pest

Science & Environment

UC San Diego biologists have created the world’s first gene drive system—a mechanism for manipulating genetic inheritance—in Drosophila suzukii, an agricultural pest that has invaded much of the United States and caused millions of dollars in damage to high-value berry and other fruit crops.

Researchers Develop First Gene Drive Targeting Worldwide Crop Pest

Center for AIDS Research Funding Renewed for an Old and On-Going Fight

Health & Behavior

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded a five-year, $15 million grant to the San Diego Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) https://cfar.ucsd.edu at UC San Diego, renewing support that extends back to an original establishing grant in 1994—the height of the AIDS epidemic.