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Review of Appendix Cancer Cases Finds Over Diagnosis

Lesions of the appendix are being over diagnosed as invasive cancer, report University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers in a paper published June 7 in the journal PLOS ONE.

Seniors Make Final Tweaks to CSE 125 Multiplayer Videogames

Computer science students in a course of building software systems will present their final team projects in the form of five multi-player, 3D networked videogames in front of a standing-room-only audience this Friday in the Qualcomm Institute’s auditorium.

Cancer Cells Send Signals Boosting Survival and Drug Resistance in Other Cancer Cells

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that cancer cells appear to communicate to other cancer cells, activating an internal mechanism that boosts resistance to common chemotherapies and promotes tumor survival.

CSE Professor Recognized Not Once, Not Twice, but Three Times in Year-End Honors

CSE Associate Teaching Professor Christine Alvarado wins the trifecta of teaching awards this year. She’ll accept the awards from the Tau Beta Pi honors engineering society, the Jacobs School of Engineering, and the Academic Senate.

A Glove Powered by Soft Robotics to Interact with Virtual Reality Environments

Engineers at UC San Diego are using soft robotics technology to make light, flexible gloves that allow users to feel tactile feedback when they interact with virtual reality environments. The researchers used the gloves to realistically simulate the tactile feeling of playing a virtual piano keyboard.

Do Obese Children Need to Attend Treatment to Lose Weight?

One-third of American children are overweight or obese. Family-based treatment (FBT) has been considered the best model for the treatment of obese children as it provides both parents and children with education and behavior therapy techniques but is provided mainly in a hospital setting. Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have found that parent-based therapy (PBT) has similar outcomes to FBT and could be more cost-effective.