A New Strategy to Transform Liver Cancer Immunotherapy
UC San Diego researchers identify new strategy to improve efficacy of immunotherapy on resistant liver cancers.
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UC San Diego Helps Expand Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative
UC San Diego School of Medicine partners with The Michael J. Fox Foundation on a clinical study to identify biomarkers of Parkinson’s disease. The study seeks to recruit 4,000 participants by the end of 2023.
San Diego Supercomputer Center’s Expanse Provides a Sneak Peek of the Extended Solar Corona
On Saturday, Dec. 4, a total eclipse of the sun will occur at 07:33 (Universal Time) over Antarctica and parts of the South Pacific near the southern tip of Chile. The solar corona – visible to the naked eye only during a total eclipse – will be viewable for just over one minute.
Can Seven Questions Determine How Wise You Are?
Researchers report that an abbreviated, seven-item scale can help determine with high validity a person’s level of wisdom, a potentially modifiable personality trait that has been shown to have a strong association to well-being.
Developing Sex-specific Treatments for Heart Disease
As a heart fails, a woman's ventricular wall increases in thickness relative to a man's. And in heart valve disease, men show more calcified tissue growth, while women develop more fibrotic, scar-like tissue. Yet, treatments for both diseases remain strikingly similar for both men and women, despite the differences in disease progression.
Frank Würthwein Named Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center
The San Diego Supercomputer Center has a new director. Frank Würthwein, lead of SDSC’s Distributed High-Throughput Computing Group, executive director of the Open Science Grid, a physics professor and a founding faculty member of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego assumes the role
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