October 31, 2013
…and a flash mob modeled after the “Thriller” dance. Following the fest, some got to experience a trip to the High Andes through a gourmet Peruvian dinner followed by an illustrated description of the high Andean parts of Peru, Bolivia and Chile by UC San Diego biology professor Christopher Wills,…
May 17, 2018
…science as a feasible model for engaging the public on scientific topics. Among the observations made by the team of scientists at the UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation is that the number of plants in a person’s diet is a factor in the diversity of their gut microbiome.…
August 27, 2020
…validate regional ocean circulation models and fisheries predictions. It is also a long-term context for other monitoring programs such as the California Underwater Glider Network (CUGN) and the California Current Ecosystem Long-Term Ecological Research site (CCE-LTER). The CalCOFI program usually conducts four research expeditions per year off southern and central…
August 15, 2023
The Floating Instrument Platform (FLIP) was one of the most innovative oceanographic research tools ever invented, but on Aug. 3, FLIP’s distinguished career finished its final chapter when it was towed to a dismantling and recycling facility, the costs to renovate it deemed too expensive.
November 3, 2022
World leaders, climate experts and policymakers from nearly 200 counties are preparing to descend upon the seaside city of Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt for a United Nations climate conference that kicks off next week.
February 28, 2024
Individuals with Williams syndrome have a gregarious “cocktail party” personality, while those with the opposite genetic alteration, in contrast, tend to have autistic traits and are prone to struggle socially. Research from UC San Diego sheds new light on the gene responsible.
January 24, 2023
The gut microbiome plays a critical but poorly understood role in how drugs work or don’t work in the body. It also presents therapeutic possibilities unto itself.
February 18, 2016
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Emeritus Professor Douglas Inman, considered the founder of the field of coastal oceanography, died Thursday at the age of 95.
December 6, 2018
…wealthier, diets shift towards animal products, and as we’ve seen, this puts tremendous strain on land use,” McCord explained. The constraints are so daunting that some scientists have suggested that if society keeps going this route, all humans will have to adopt vegetarian diets by the end of the century…
September 12, 2016
A team led by researchers at the University of California San Diego has captured in step-by-step atomic detail the surgical editing of DNA strands by CRISPR-Cas9, the innovative gene-splicing technology that in recent years has transformed the field of genetic engineering.
