UC San Diego biologists have identified a way to reinvigorate immune system cells, which can become exhausted after fighting disease. They found that protein recycling malfunctions after a cell burns out. Restoring a proper recycling system allows T cells to regain their cancer-fighting functions.
What if a cancer diagnosis didn’t come with weeks of waiting? Or a mosquito bite couldn’t spread disease? Our researchers are rethinking how health works — long before illness begins.
Water molecules play an active, essential role in gene transcription, helping RNA polymerase II carry out the chemical steps needed to read DNA and build RNA.
UC San Diego researchers have developed T1GRS, a machine‑learning model that accurately predicts genetic risk for Type 1 diabetes, paving the way for earlier diagnosis and more personalized treatment.
Bernhard Palsson builds computer models that help scientists make biology easier to predict — and easier to engineer. His work has influenced everything from microbe-made chemicals to cells used to produce therapeutic proteins and efforts to tackle antibiotic resistance.
UC San Diego has received a $13 Million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to investigate how RNA pollution drives neurodegenerative diseases and to develop novel therapies that protect the aging brain.
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