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Health & BehaviorIn a surprisingly large chunk of the world, prenatal care looks – or more accurately, sounds – like this: A small, conical wooden tube used to listen to heartbeat of an unborn child.
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UCSD Study Shows Why Protein Mutations Lead to Familial Form of Parkinson’s Disease
Health & BehaviorResearchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, have shown for the first time why protein mutations lead to the familial form of Parkinson’s disease
UC San Diego Physicist Frank Würthwein Joins SDSC
Science & EnvironmentUniversity of California, San Diego Professor Frank Würthwein, an expert in high-energy particle physics and advanced computation, has joined the university’s San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) to help implement a high-capacity data cyberinfrastructure across all UC campuses.
Director, Cyber Chief Rogers Will Discuss NSA, Interconnected World
Science & EnvironmentFew institutions have ignited such passionate public debate over their roles and activities than the National Security Agency (NSA). As the lead agency for the U.S. government on cryptology, its missions encompass collecting foreign information for intelligence purposes and preventing foreign adversaries from gaining access to U.S. national-security information.
Scripps Scientists to be Honored with Prestigious International Biology Award
Science & EnvironmentLinda and Nick Holland, marine biologists based at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego since 1987 and 1966, respectively, have been selected to receive one of the world’s most prestigious awards in the field of evolutionary biology.
New Cellular Pathway Triggering Allergic Asthma Response Identified
Health & BehaviorResearchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, with collaborators in Korea and Scotland, have identified a novel signaling pathway critical to the immune response of cells associated with the initiation of allergic asthma. The discovery, they say, could point the way to new therapies that suppress the inflammatory allergic response, offering potential relief to millions of Americans with the chronic lung condition and potentially other allergic diseases.
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