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Health Risks of COVID-19 Spurred More Smokers to Quit

New UC San Diego Rady School of Management study is first to track smoking behavior at the individual level during the pandemic.

Illumina Supports Enhanced Genomics-Enabled Discovery and Training Programs at UC San Diego

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego announced today that Illumina has provided researchers at the Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine at Scripps new scientific equipment to build genomics and laboratory automation-enabled discovery and training programs.

A Father Advocates for the HPV Vaccine After Advanced Throat Cancer

It was a typical morning for Mike West, one that usually started with a quick shave before getting ready for work. However, this specific morning, he felt something unusual: a small, but hard lump just under his skin on his throat. West decided to call his doctor’s office.

Giant Viruses Build a Cell Nucleus Surprisingly Like Our Own

Scientists are using new technologies to obtain unprecedented looks inside viruses and their unique abilities to infect and destroy bacteria. Using cryo-EM and other technologies, they found that jumbo phage cells feature a compartment that is surprisingly similar to the nucleus of human cells.

Setting the Stage for Solid-State Battery Success

Battery researchers and other engineers from UC San Diego, with collaboration from the LG Energy Solution, outline three categories of engineering challenges that must be solved in order to transition all-solid-state batteries from the laboratory toward large-scale industrial manufacturing.

Gene Therapy Approach Shows Promise in Treating ALS

Researchers report that a gene therapy approach, developed at UC San Diego measurably delayed disease onset in humanized mouse and rat models of familial ALS, an inherited form of the disease that runs in families.