December 6, 2022
Researchers from a broad range of fields at the University of California San Diego are making waves as they push the boundaries of science and medicine to develop groundbreaking, real-world solutions to longstanding health inequities.
April 9, 2020
…and facets scientists have learned about the virus’ genome. Coronaviruses, as Troemel noted, feature RNA-based genomes, unlike most of life on the planet, which feature DNA genomes. RNA genomes in coronaviruses are positive-sense, which are similar to the cell’s own messenger RNA and allows these viruses to immediately hijack the…
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…
August 30, 2023
Immunologists have uncovered new approaches to enhance protection from tumors and infections. They have revealed new insights into the metabolism of specialized cells of the immune system known as tissue-resident CD8 T cells and how they could be enhanced as immune defense weapons against tumors.
April 4, 2013
…translates into cognition.” To Learn More: Video of the President’s announcement White House fact sheet on the BRAIN initiative White House infographic Kavli Foundation on BRAIN Salk Institute on Sejnowski and BRAIN In addition to research funding support from three federal agencies—the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research…
May 2, 2019
…undergraduates have ample experiential learning opportunities and the opportunity to do bona fide research, both in the classroom and in a research lab. We’re also integrating ethical considerations into our research effort, via the partnership between the Tata Institute for Genetics and Society and the Institute for Practical Ethics, in…
April 6, 2023
After decades of working in industry and academia, biophysicists Alex Savtchenko and Elena Molokanova still have big dreams.
January 17, 2024
Sensors built with a new manufacturing approach are capable of recording activity deep within the brain from large populations of individual neurons–with a resolution of as few as one or two neurons–in humans as well as a range of animal models.
October 11, 2018
…brain’s physical and biochemical machinery to the experiences and behaviors we call the mind. Marye Anne Fox Marye Anne Fox, Ph.D., the seventh chancellor of UC San Diego and the first woman to be appointed as permanent chancellor, led the university during an historic era of extraordinary campus growth and…
November 12, 2013
A study led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine shines a new light on molecular tools our cells use to govern regulated gene expression.
