July 9, 2024
William Kuperman, emeritus professor of oceanography and former Director of the Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL) at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, died June 30. He was 81. Kuperman was widely recognized for his contributions to the fields of underwater acoustics and acoustical oceanography.
July 29, 2024
New research from scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography finds a tiny freshwater parasite known to cause health problems in humans defends its colonies with a class of soldiers that cannot reproduce.
October 30, 2014
…from the Swedish Royal Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize; the University of Cambridge where Sanger worked and taught and closer to home, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the J. Craig Venter Institute. The UC San Diego symposium is one of just a handful of events worldwide celebrating…
January 15, 2015
…It’s the bane of academe. Complex ideas in science need to be conveyed with precision. Yet most scientists also believe the public needs to understand the details, without personal opinions or emotion, so that people can draw their own conclusions based on facts. Emmy Award-winning actor and director Alan Alda…
November 10, 2016
…to a recent National Academy of Sciences report, advances in quantitative biology are critically important in order for our nation to continue to make future progress in medicine, genetics and the life sciences. “In quantitative biology, we’re applying the quantitative approaches that physicists and chemists have successfully used to discover…
February 13, 2020
…interaction between industry and academia to provide a space for collaboration. Sarah-Jeanne Royer holds pieces of plastic that have accumulated on Kamilo Beach in Hawaii. The key to this study was to acquire raw material fibers created from popular chemical processing methods that could ultimately affect fiber biodegradability, which has…
March 5, 2012
University of California, San Diego bioengineers have developed a self-healing hydrogel that binds in seconds, as easily as Velcro, and forms a bond strong enough to withstand repeated stretching.
May 7, 2012
An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, report that significant numbers of myofibroblasts – cells that produce the fibrous scarring in chronic liver injury – revert to an inactive phenotype as the liver heals. The discovery in mouse models…
November 25, 2013
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have successfully targeted T lymphocytes – which play a central role in the body’s immune response – with another type of white blood cell engineered to synthesize and deliver bits of non-coding RNA or microRNA (miRNA).
July 2, 2014
A team including researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research has developed a novel methodology that for the first time combines 3D and advanced range estimator technologies to provide highly detailed data on the range and movements of terrestrial, aquatic, and…
