The mechanism leading to development of type 1 diabetes remains a mystery, hampering the ability to find new ways to prevent, treat or even cure this condition. With a new $3.3 million grant, University of California School of Medicine researchers hope to create a high resolution reference map of pancreatic cells that will identify molecular changes that arise during type 1 diabetes.
Invention Science Fund, the incubator arm of Intellectual Ventures, and San Diego’s Legler Benbough Foundation will contribute $1 million in combined sponsorship funds to the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur at the University of California San Diego to help accelerate new startup companies.
Using a novel biomarker panel to track and measure kidney function, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and University of California San Francisco School of Medicine report that lowering systolic blood pressure to less than 120 mm Hg does not damage the kidney organ itself. Instead, any negative changes to clinical results are more likely due to decreased blood flow.
The art of warfare is now warfare as art as the gallery@calit2 opens its fall season with “Pressure Field: Calzada,” an exhibition by the artist collective AUDINT. The exhibition reconstructs perplexing sounds reported by the U.S. State Department as being used in several mysterious sonic attacks on diplomats at the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba in 2017.
Steffanie Strathdee, PhD, associate dean of global health sciences at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, was named today one of TIME magazine’s 50 Most Influential People in Health Care for 2018, which identifies people who “have changed the state of health care in America this year, and bear watching for what they do next.”
On Puerto Rico’s northern coast, oceanfront homes in Barceloneta rest on a narrow coastal plain protected from the onslaught of waves by sand dunes on the beach.
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