January 21, 2021
…She’s studying how heart muscle tissue changes in microgravity conditions, which is important for understanding heart disease, developing new drugs and paving the way toward developing cell replacement therapies in future space missions. During her first mission to the Space Station in 2016, Rubins relied on scientific training that includes…
October 24, 2019
…grow animal cells into muscle tissue—which is exactly what meat is. Unlike plant-based meat, cultivated meat is not yet available on the market: it’s still being developed by several dozen startup companies, and commercial launch is expected to happen in the next few years. Q. Describe your current position and…
October 3, 2019
…the heart, from heart muscle all the way down to individual cells and gene expression. Then McCulloch scales his findings back up, to the scale of the whole heart. Fung and his wife with President Bill Clinton when he received the National Medal of Science in 2000. Daniela Valdez-Jasso, who…
December 7, 2017
…muscular atrophy, an inherited muscle wasting condition that was previously always fatal. Now, kids who were completely immobilized are walking. Similar designer DNA drugs are currently in clinical trials for the treatment of ALS, Huntington’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. “Don’s work defines the essential nature and need for basic science,”…
October 15, 2020
…mRNA is injected into muscle, the mRNA is translated into the full-length spike protein (the protein thought to confer protection against SAR-CoV-2) and stimulates the human immune system to produce antibodies and cellular immunity against the virus. Little: I’m the principal investigator for both the AstraZeneca and Janssen trials at…
January 8, 2024
As part of ongoing efforts to understand the scale of the environmental impact from industrial waste dumping off the coast of Southern California, researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography revisited two industrial undersea dumpsites in April 2023.
March 8, 2018
…garage that soups up muscle cars for maximum performance.” One room-sized microscope, for example, has a hole cut in the back and an additional lens added — a lens made by the same company that made the corrective optics to fix the Hubble telescope. The scope can provide resolution down…
April 25, 2017
Scientists and physicians at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, working with colleagues at the U.S. Navy Medical Research Center – Biological Defense Research Directorate (NMRC-BDRD), Texas A&M University, a San Diego-based biotech and elsewhere, have successfully used an experimental therapy involving bacteriophages — viruses that target and…
June 20, 2013
…surgery to improve her muscle elasticity; however, she suffered from complications from the procedure which required her to undergo emergency surgery. Though Thomas faced health setbacks, she maintained her full-time student status at UC San Diego and even worked as an Orientation Leader at Thurgood Marshall College. “I definitely had…
September 17, 2020
…weeks, with loss of muscle mass and other issues. Most people with COVID-19 infections have some fatigue for a few weeks and then are back to normal.” COVID-19 appears to attack other organs beyond the lungs, including kidneys and the heart. Dr. Eric Adler, cardiologist and director of Cardiac Transplant…
