UC San Diego Health Recognized for Leadership in Environmental Sustainability
UC San Diego Health was honored with six different awards for its health care sustainability efforts by Practice Greenhealth.
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UC San Diego Champions Investigative Journalists in Mexico who Persevere
Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a journalist. Human rights group Article 19 has documented 145 murders of journalists between 2000 and 2021 in Mexico. Just last January, Margarito Martinez and Lourdes Maldonado, two Tijuana journalists, were gunned down in the city.
$2.5M Gift Targets Gaps in Circadian Biology and Medicine
A $2.5 million initiative supported by philanthropists Irwin and Joan Jacobs has created the Stuart and Barbara L. Brody Endowed Chair in Circadian Biology and Medicine, along with a supporting research fund, to target largely unexplored areas related to circadian biology and patient health.
UC San Diego First to Test Cancer Drugs in Space Using Private Astronaut Mission
The latest space experiments from UC San Diego and Axiom Space will explore therapies for breast and colorectal cancer aboard the ISS, and monitor astronauts’ stem cell health over time.
A New Map Reveals the Complicated World in Which Cells Seek to Repair Damaged DNA
UC San Diego scientists develop an interactive software that enables scientists to better investigate the DNA damage response.
New Study Shows Noninvasive Brain Imaging Can Distinguish Among Hand Gestures
Researchers have found a way to distinguish among hand gestures that people are making by examining only data from noninvasive brain imaging, without information from the hands. The results are an early step in a safe brain-computer interface that may one day help patients with movement challenges.
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