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Do These Genes Make Me Lonely? Study Finds Loneliness is a Heritable Trait

Health & Behavior

Loneliness is linked to poor physical and mental health, and is an even more accurate predictor of early death than obesity. To better understand who is at risk, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine conducted the first genome-wide association study for loneliness — as a life-long trait, not a temporary state. They discovered that risk for feeling lonely is partially due to genetics, but environment plays a bigger role.

Do These Genes Make Me Lonely? Study Finds Loneliness is a Heritable Trait

New California Law to Curb Climate Pollutant Emissions Based on Scripps Science

Science & Environment

California Governor Edmund “Jerry” Brown signed into law today new state restrictions on the emissions of so-called short-lived climate pollutants such as methane, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used in refrigeration, and soot and other forms of black carbon. The new law was inspired by decades of research by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Climate and Atmospheric Scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan.

New California Law to Curb Climate Pollutant Emissions Based on Scripps Science

UC San Diego Names Computer Engineer to Fratamico Endowed Chair

Health & Behavior

CSE Prof. Tajana Rosing is the inaugural holder of an academic chair endowed in 2012 by John J. and Susan M. Fratamico to promote scholarship in fields including engineering and the life sciences.

UC San Diego Names Computer Engineer to Fratamico Endowed Chair

Landmark National Study of Adolescent Brain Now Underway

Business & Economics

If you’ve lived through your own or your kids’ adolescence, you know it’s an extraordinary time. Yet researchers know comparatively little about the teenage brain. The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study – by the National Institutes of Health, with leadership from the University of California San Diego – aims to change that. The largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the United States is now underway.

Landmark National Study of Adolescent Brain Now Underway

Molecular Switch Controlling Immune Suppression May Help Turn Up Immunotherapies

Health & Behavior

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center have identified a strategy to maximize the effectiveness of anti-cancer immune therapy. The researchers identified a molecular switch that controls immune suppression, opening the possibility to further improving and refining emerging immunotherapies that boost the body’s own abilities to fight diseases ranging from cancer to Alzheimer’s and Crohn’s disease.

Molecular Switch Controlling Immune Suppression May Help Turn Up Immunotherapies

Researchers Say to Conquer Cancer You Need to Stop It Before It Becomes Cancer

Health & Behavior

In a Perspective piece published this week in PNAS, cancer researchers from across the country, including faculty at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, write that a greater emphasis on immune-based prevention should be central to new efforts like the federal Cancer Moonshot program, headed by Vice President Joe Biden.