How Genes Organize the Surface of the Brain
March 29, 2012
…Diego School of Medicine and the VA San Diego Healthcare System. The work is published in the March 30 issue of the journal Science.
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Brain Responses to Language in Toddlers with Autism Linked to Altered Gene Expression
November 26, 2018
Differential brain responses to speech in toddlers with autism and poor language development associated with widespread gene expression activity in blood leukocyte cells.
$6M NIH Grant Launches UC San Diego Consortium to Study Insulin-Producing Cells
September 9, 2021
UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers will receive $6.4 million in National Institutes of Health grant funding to study how external signals and genetic variations influence the behavior of one cell type in particular: insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas.
Two UC San Diego Scientists Honored for Schizophrenia Research
October 7, 2014
…been honored by the New York City-based Brain & Behavior Research Foundation for their work studying the genetics, dysfunction and treatment of schizophrenia, a chronic and severe brain disorder affecting roughly 1 percent of the general population or approximately 3 million people.
New Student Program to Help Address Diversity Gap in Health Care Industry
December 14, 2022
UC San Diego Health is the only institution in the region to receive grant funding from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information to provide support for underrepresented high school students interested in entering health care.
Health Risks of COVID-19 Spurred More Smokers to Quit
August 4, 2022
Health Risks of COVID-19 Spurred More Smokers to Quit New UC San Diego Rady School of Management study is first to track smoking behavior at the individual level during the pandemic Being a smoker makes it more likely for a person to have severe COVID-19 symptoms, require hospitalization or die,…
Minding Time
April 18, 2019
…in National Institutes of Health funding. From 1987 to 1990, he served as director of the National Institute of Mental Health, the first active scientist to hold the job and helped launch the Decade of the Brain (1990-1999), an ambitious effort to raise public awareness of the benefits derived from…
Detecting Odors on the Edge: Researchers Decipher How Insects Smell More with Less
May 20, 2024
While humans feature a sophisticated sense of smell, insects have a much more basic olfactory system. Yet they depend upon smell to survive. Scientists have figured out how fruit flies use a simple but efficient system to recognize odors, and the answer lies at the edges of their antennae.
Protein Discovery Sheds New Light on Cellular Behavior
February 6, 2023
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and University of California San Diego just published a new paper in Nature Physics featuring previously unknown information about cellular proteins and how they organize themselves.
Honoring a UC San Diego Landmark and Its Lasting Impact on Physics
September 8, 2022
…/ UC San Diego Health. Is there magic in the walls of Mayer Hall? This is the question Oleg Shpyrko, chair of the Department of Physics at the University of California San Diego, asked the audience gathered in the auditorium for a daylong series of events to celebrate the building’s…
