How Brain Tumors Turn Immune Cells into Cancer-Growing Hostages
Researchers discover that brain cancer tumors reprogram immune cells to help them grow, rather than suppress them.
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San Diego Supercomputer Center, Core Scientific Form New Partnership
SDSC’s Expanse platform via Core Scientific’s Plexus software stack offers users a consumption-based, high-performance computing model that solves for on-premise infrastructure and can run HPC workloads in supercomputer centers as well as in any of the major public cloud providers.
IceCube Neutrino Observatory Detects New High-Energy Particle
In December 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino hurtled to Earth from outer space at close to the speed of light. Deep inside the ice sheet at the South Pole, it smashed into an electron and produced a particle that quickly decayed into a shower of secondary particles.
Study Uses Precision Medicine to Speed Drug Testing for Pancreatic Cancer
Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health is among the few clinical trial sites in the U.S. for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s (PanCAN) newly created Precision Promise, the first large-scale precision medicine trial designed to transform outcomes for patients with pancreatic cancer.
Autism Center at UC San Diego Receives $1.5 Million Gift
The UC San Diego Autism Center for Excellence has received a $1.5 million gift from Kristin Farmer, founder and chief executive officer of ACES, a company that provides services to children with autism and their families, to support the work of Karen Pierce, co-director of the Autism Center.
Breakthrough with Quantum Materials Pushes Biologically Inspired Learning Devices
UC San Diego physicists have created new artificial devices that mimic basic learning functions carried out by neurons in the human brain. They demonstrated how quantum materials could be used to develop new devices that can “learn” to switch between functional states.
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