October 24, 2011
A summer research expedition organized by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has led to the identification of gigantic amoebas at one of the deepest locations on Earth.
November 8, 2021
While many researchers suspect there will be a massive influx of COVID-related mismanaged plastic waste, a new study is the first to project the magnitude and fate of the waste in the oceans.
January 4, 2018
In the past 50 years, the amount of water in the open ocean with zero oxygen has gone up more than fourfold. In coastal water bodies, including estuaries and seas, low-oxygen sites have increased more than 10-fold since 1950. Scientists expect oxygen to continue dropping even outside these zones as…
May 9, 2013
…pollutants such as lead, mercury and cyanide in drinking water sources in Mongolia. “We are trying to map out water quality similar to how Google shows you traffic on its map,” said Chuluun. “Every time a person checks their water quality, the result is displayed on their phone via Bluetooth…
October 25, 2012
…bacterial protein that grabs mercury and holds on tightly as it pulls the toxic metal safely into the cell where it can be transformed into a less harmful form. A tiny vial holding a specially prepared sample of protein inserts into a custom-made instrument that allows structural chemists to measure…
February 13, 2020
…retardants, air pollutants, lead, mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs, has been linked to several neurodevelopmental disorders, including ASD. Naviaux and colleagues believe that the majority of ASD symptoms are the result of a treatable metabolic syndrome triggered by persistence activation of the cell danger response (CDR), a natural and…
May 5, 2022
…timely and targeted care Mercury Health, using AI detection, learning and analytics to empower caregivers Micronoma, Inc., helping clinicians make early-stage cancer diagnoses using circulating microbial signatures NanoCellect Biomedical, focused on making cell sorting and analysis simpler and more intuitive NeuroNordic, Inc., a group of clinical and research experts devising…
February 23, 2017
…their host star than Mercury orbits the Sun—another unusual feature of this planetary system. In addition, the TRAPPIST-1 planets are so close to each other that if a person was standing on the surface of one of the planets, he or she could gaze up and potentially see geological features…
April 23, 2015
…keynote presentation titled “Weaving Mercury” by Alex McDowell, director of the University of Southern California’s 5D Institute, and Sergei Gepshtein, vision scientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Discussing multiple threads that characterize visual experience in both natural and cinematic perception, the event will set the tone for a…
April 16, 2024
The University of California San Diego was awarded $7.35 million in funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health for a multidisciplinary program to advance understanding of marine contaminants and nutrients.
