December 19, 2013
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in The Netherlands and United Kingdom, have produced the first map detailing the network of genetic interactions underlying the cellular response to ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
February 5, 2020
Clostridium difficile, a bacterium known to cause symptoms from diarrhea to life-threatening colon damage, is part of a growing epidemic for the elderly and hospitalized patients. Biologists have now developed models of the common fruit fly to help develop novel therapies to fight the pathogen.
April 4, 2019
…Lykke-Andersen, Ph.D. Professor of Molecular Biology Fueled by intense dedication, Jens Lykke-Andersen serves as chair of his division’s graduate program, advising and teaching first-year coursework for every student. He is an innovator in building interactive educational environments, “flipping” the classroom away from lecture-based instruction to interactive conversations that help learners…
November 21, 2016
Exploring the origins of humanity—along with the many facets of what makes us human—has enticed researchers across disciplines and centuries. It is also the primary quest of the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA). This year, six graduate students have been awarded fellowships to support their participation…
November 20, 2014
…support Moores Cancer Center, Biological Sciences and Cellular and Molecular Medicine; $3.8 million in grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support Family and Preventative Medicine and the Qualcomm Institute; $3 million pledge from the Gordon Foundation to fund the Bernard and Sophia Gordon Engineering Leadership Center at the…
September 11, 2017
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and collaborators discovered a new kind of glycan (sugar chain) that survives even in a 4 million-year-old animal fossil from Kenya, under conditions where ancient DNA does not. While ancient hominin fossils are not yet available for glycan analysis, this…
August 7, 2013
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine offer an explanation for why we all don’t get Alzheimer’s disease (AD) - a trick of nature that in most people maintains critical separation between a protein and an enzyme that, when combined, trigger the progressive cell degeneration and…
May 4, 2020
Comparing the brains of mice that exercised with those that did not, UC San Diego researchers found that specific neurons switched their chemical signals, called neurotransmitters, following exercise, leading to improved learning for motor-skill acquisition.
August 22, 2024
Neurobiologists studying the emergence of autism spectrum disorders have found evidence of altered early development of the nervous system. They linked environmentally induced forms of ASD to changes in neurotransmitters, the chemical messengers that allow neurons to communicate with each other.
March 12, 2013
Coral reefs not only provide the world with rich, productive ecosystems and photogenic undersea settings, they also contribute an economic boost valued at hundreds of billions of dollars. But their decline in recent years due to a variety of threats—from pollution to climate warming—has lent urgency to the search for…
