September 26, 2013
…new play–“A Willow Grows Aslant: An Ophelia Story”–“deconstructs Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ through the lens of Ophelia as she navigates her father’s political ambitions, her boyfriend’s revenge fantasies, and her own private dream of becoming a dancer.” Collaborating with theatre and dance alumna Lindsay Shield (choreographer) and MFA candidates Kate Jopson (director)…
May 16, 2011
…particularly American Sign Language (ASL), and she has explored ways in which language forms are created, propagated, and conventionalized in natural environments. More… Nicholas Spitzer Nicholas Spitzer is a professor in the Division of Biological Sciences. He has studied activity-dependent regulation of expression of serotonin and dopamine in the embryonic…
November 14, 2024
Researchers at UC San Diego and their colleagues have developed an optical biosensor that detects the virus that causes mpox. The technology could make diagnosis much faster and cost-effective as the disease continues to spread worldwide.
November 9, 2023
Women produce physiological data that is just as predictable as men, at least when it comes to skin temperature. This might seem like common sense, but variations in body signals due to menstrual cycles, such as temperature, were used as an excuse to keep women out of clinical studies for…
March 7, 2013
…weight, when we fall asleep and wake up, how likely we are to have accidents and how we respond to disease. There is no single function in human biology that is affected by the clock; rather, essentially all physiological process are timed, and when the timing of one process is…
October 19, 2017
University of California San Diego anthropology professor Thomas E. Levy is back in San Diego after participating in the fourth International Conference on Dialogue of Civilizations, held in Ahmedabad, India and co-organized by the National Geographic Society (NGS), Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and India’s Ministry of Culture.
February 9, 2024
Scientists hope to advance precision medicine through the discovery of a gene variant that leads to the same phenotype in separate high-dwelling populations while taking a different evolutionary path.
June 20, 2024
Your sleep tracker might give you information about more than just your sleep–specifically, it might give you information about chronic conditions such as diabetes and sleep apnea, and illnesses such as COVID-19.
April 20, 2023
For the first time, scientists have recorded brain activity in a free-ranging, wild marine mammal, revealing the sleep habits of elephant seals during the months they spend at sea.
June 14, 2018
…or they’ll fall back asleep, only to have it happen again a few seconds later. As a result of this intermittent airway collapse, the body is exposed to low oxygen and high carbon dioxide conditions, and people with the condition are more likely to develop cardiovascular diseases down the road.…
