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UC’s New Electorate Project Reveals Initial Impact of Voter’s Choice Act

The Voter’s Choice Act is transforming voting methods in California: the how, where and when of voting. Is it also changing who votes?

In Mice, Eliminating Damaged Mitochondria Alleviates Chronic Inflammatory Disease

Treatment with a choline kinase inhibitor prompts immune cells to clear away damaged mitochondria, thus reducing NLRP3 inflammasome activation and preventing inflammation

NASA Twin Study Provides a Multi-omics View of the Human Body’s Response to a Year in Space

The NASA Twins Study is the most comprehensive integrated multi-omics, molecular, physiological, and behavioral analysis of how the human body responds to space flight to date. Study results were published in the April edition of Science

Next-generation Gene Drive Arrives

Scientists developed a new version of a gene drive that spreads favorable genetic variants, also known as “alleles,” throughout a population. The new “allelic drive” is equipped with a guide RNA that directs CRISPR to cut undesired variants of a gene and replace them with a preferred version.

Waiting with Ablated Breath: Is This the Cure for Ventricular Fibrillation?

Patients who suffer from VF live in constant fear of triggering a cardiac event, which can only be treated with an automated external defibrillator and which can become fatal in mere seconds. But a new procedure developed at UC San Diego Health is now presenting an alternative: a curative procedure.

Genome-Wide Analysis Reveals New Strategies to Target Pancreatic Cancer

An international team of scientists led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine employed an array of next-generation sequencing and gene-editing tools, such as CRISPR, to map the molecular dependencies – and thus vulnerabilities – of pancreatic cancer stem cells.