May 5, 2022
…a mission to deliver health equity to America’s most vulnerable families), UNIGRID (making solid-state batteries accessible on the consumer market), Micronoma (enabling early-stage cancer diagnosis using microbial nucleic acid) and many more. Welfie CEO Dr. Steven Moyo. “Events like Innovation Day are an opportunity to highlight Black and women-led companies…
June 11, 2020
…realized,” she said. Her mental health was affected by the reality of this situation as she came to terms with the idea that these next months would look much different than what she planned, yet she persevered and says she’s better off for it. “I might not get to spend…
September 8, 2021
SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, influenza, measles, and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold can all spread via aerosols that can build up in indoor air and linger for hours, an international, interdisciplinary team of researchers has reported in a review published in the journal Science.
May 1, 2013
New discoveries of the way plants transport important substances across their biological membranes to resist toxic metals and pests, increase salt and drought tolerance, control water loss and store sugar can have profound implications for increasing the supply of food and energy for our rapidly growing global population. That’s the…
July 23, 2020
…at UC San Diego Health. These life-saving studies continue to be offered. With additional safety measures in place, clinical trials offer patients potentially lifesaving therapies during the pandemic As a last-ditch effort to halt the head and neck cancer that had spread to Bernard Thurman’s lymph nodes and lungs, the…
November 30, 2017
…cardiovascular, endocrine and reproductive health. Because biological clock genes have been “conserved,” or retained, in our DNA during millions of years of evolution, understanding how organisms such as cyanobacteria or fruit flies regulate their internal biological clocks has provided circadian biologists with a greater understanding of the precise genetic and…
August 29, 2019
Nine-month-old brains-in-a-dish and the brains of premature newborn babies generate similar electrical patterns, as captured by electroencephalogram (EEG) — the first time such brain activity has been achieved in a cell-based laboratory model.
October 10, 2023
UC San Diego Today reached out to members of the Latinx campus community to gather their recommendations on what to read, watch and listen to during Latinx Heritage Month—and all year long.
December 18, 2019
With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, UC San Diego and the San Diego Community College District are building a pipeline of successful undergraduate and graduate students, resulting in a new generation of leaders who will reshape the value and meaning of an education in the humanities.
April 2, 2024
To kick off UC San Diego’s César E. Chávez celebration month, UC San Diego Today is highlighting three Tritons who are passionately advocating for causes close to their own hearts.
