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NOAA-funded Project Recover Discovers Stern of World War II U.S. Destroyer off Remote Alaskan Island

Science & Environment

On July 17, a NOAA-funded team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the University of Delaware discovered the missing 75-foot stern section of USS Abner Read, which sank in 1943 in 290 feet of water off Kiska, one of Alaska's Aleutian islands. Aug. 18 marks the 75th anniversary of the sinking that cost 71 sailors their lives.

NOAA-funded Project Recover Discovers Stern of World War II U.S. Destroyer off Remote Alaskan Island

Byproducts of ‘Junk DNA’ Implicated in Cancer Spread

Health & Behavior

UC San Diego biologists and their colleagues have revealed that enhancer RNAs play a significant role in cancer dissemination. The researchers found that eRNAs have a direct role in the activation of genes that are important for tumor development. This role is facilitated by the ability of eRNAs to directly interact with BRD4, a protein known as a cancer disseminator. BRD4 has been recognized as a promising cancer target.

Byproducts of ‘Junk DNA’ Implicated in Cancer Spread

Parental Life Span Predicts Daughters Living to 90 without Chronic Disease or Disability

Health & Behavior

Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that women whose mothers lived to at least age 90 were more likely to also live to 90, free of serious diseases and disabilities.

Parental Life Span Predicts Daughters Living to 90 without Chronic Disease or Disability

A Global Academic Powerhouse: UC San Diego Named World’s 15th Best University

Health & Behavior

A prestigious new ranking has listed the University of California San Diego 15th among the world’s best universities for its award-winning faculty and alumni, as well as producing high-impact and prolific research. The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) released its new report of the best universities today, also naming UC San Diego 13th among U.S. colleges and fourth, among the country’s public universities.

A Global Academic Powerhouse: UC San Diego Named World’s 15th Best University

U.S. News & World Report Ranks UC San Diego Health Nationally

Business & Economics

UC San Diego Health and its medical and surgical specialties have again been nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report for 2018-19. Each year, U.S. News & World Report analyzes and reviews hospitals performance in a clinical specialties, procedures and conditions for its “Best Hospital” rankings. These rankings distinguish hospitals that provide excellent treatment for health conditions that require the most comprehensive care.

U.S. News & World Report Ranks UC San Diego Health Nationally

‘Building up’ Stretchable Electronics to be as Multipurpose as Your Smartphone

Health & Behavior

By stacking and connecting layers of stretchable circuits on top of one another, engineers have developed an approach to build soft, pliable “3D stretchable electronics” that can pack a lot of functions while staying thin and small in size. The work is published in the Aug. 13 issue of Nature Electronics.